March 19, 2014

Buy my book from #Packt in the Buy One, Get One Free sale bit.ly/1j26nPN #Packt2k

My publisher is having a sale, buy one get on free on all ebooks, so if you wish to buy my book or indeed a book about something else, go check it out here.

March 19, 2014

My PhD thesis is online finally

To my great shame, I never published the findings from my PhD (Daily behavioural ratings: what can behavioural observation tell us about psychopathy, personality disorder and violence risk in secure psychiatric settings?

February 12, 2014

Book review: Doing Data Science: Straight Talk from the Frontline

Book review Doing Data Science: Straight Talk from the Frontline By Cathy O’Neil, Rachel Schutt

February 10, 2014

Boss of year of code can’t code- do we all need to be able to code?

As many of you will be aware, the Twittersphere was recently ignited by Lottie Dexter (Year of code boss can’t code) and her car crash performance on Newsnight.

December 23, 2013

Pick up a copy of my book or another ebook for $5 #Packt$5 #ebookbonanza

The publisher of my book, Packt, is having an ebook sale:

December 4, 2013

Clearly Better For Analytics and Graphics (My LondonR talk- Developing with Shiny for the Web)

I gave a talk at the LondonR group last night about using Shiny and particularly about integrating it with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery to go nicely with other web content.

November 30, 2013

The internet platform of the future

I recently sent the following to the New Statesman in response to a piece they recently carried which weighed up the likely fortunes of Google, Facebook, and Apple, and asked which would be the internet platform of the future.

November 8, 2013

Free and open source software. Come for the free, stay for the awesome

I just wrote this for the Institute of Mental Health blog so I thought I may as well cross-post here.

October 24, 2013

Quick p-values for publication

I’m afraid this is just from a lecture from the school of the totally obvious, but for some unfathomable reason I’ve never got round to doing it.

October 22, 2013

Book launch

My book has just come out, Web Application Development with R using Shiny.