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Feb 11, 2016

Pennsylvania's Flood Insurance Exchange

Pennsylvania has set up a new website, similar to the health care exchanges, that provides access to private flood insurance. Florida also has such a system and it is something we can…

Feb 10, 2016

Code Coverage Counterexamples

Code coverage is not what it's cracked up to be. As an experiment, I started using Coveralls on two of my R projects, cmna and phonics . Both projects had unit testing…

Feb 9, 2016

Solar-Powered Trains

Chase asked me why the MARC Train is not solar powered. I explained one line, the Penn Line, is electric and it gets power from many different sources, but the other two…

Feb 8, 2016

Historical Social Discount Rates

Last week, with a day to spare, I got my submission into the 2016 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM). My submission is something of a side project that grew out of my dissertation.…

Feb 4, 2016

Jeg Er En Frø!

After completing the Danish course last May, I was kind of at a loss for how to proceed. Duolingo rewards daily usage, so I did the completely rational thing and went all…

Feb 2, 2016

EPA Course for Local Governments on Climate Change

The Environmental Protection Agency has put together a only training course on adapting to climate change: ::embed{href="http://www.epa.gov/communityhealth/local-government-climate-adaptation-training"} This is actually really cool. The course is set up like a standard webinar, but…