The Obligate Scientist

Greetings! It's been a VERY long time since I've posted to this blog, but it's nice to see posts are still getting read from tim...

The end is very nigh.   May 21 st is upon us and as you've probably already heard in the news or elsewhere that means it's time f...

If you were planning on sending your mom a nerdy video, make sure you don't go overboard on the nerdiness -- unless you're mom's...

Lets face it -- π sucks. Not pie, pie is genuinely awesome and so is the fact that "pie" sounds like "π", so we can have...

I need your help!  A reader recently tried to leave a comment on this blog, and despite the fact that I received an email notifying me of t...

The reason? Imagine you have a kid, and your neighbor has 2 kids, then you both find out that really, one of their kids is sort of... yours....

... has pulled me away from blogging the past couple of months. BUT, I'll hopefully be done and back to a regular posting schedule later...

Remember how a few months ago I lamented the fact that the round() function in R uses a non-standard rule for rounding to the nearest inte...

I haven't forgotten that I promised to do a series of posts on data visualization using R - just a bit busy catching up after some exce...

This video is super awesome!  It's part of BBC 4's program The Joy of Stats and you can learn a little more about the data here or...