August 16, 2011

Day 2 of useR

Well, I said I was going to blog at least one thing I learned at the conference each day, today I’ve learned about 50 million things (yesterday was tutorials so I learned two things well; seen 20 presentations today, posters later).

August 15, 2011

useR conference update

I’m at the useR! conference so I’ll be blogging every day with at least one thing that I learned.

August 10, 2011

How do interest rates affect the way my mortgage is paid off?

With a baby on the way my wife and I have become very interested in the interest rate on our mortgage, and how it might go up or down, and how that will affect whether we overpay to build up some equity, etc.

August 3, 2011

New book- The visual display of quantitative information

Took delivery of a new book today, Tufte’s Visual Display of Quantitative Information.

August 2, 2011

Fun with wordclouds

As always, I’m late to this party, and wordclouds have come under fire in recent times, e.

August 1, 2011

The patient survey: past, present and future

Within my organisation we have something known as the Service User and Carer Experience Survey, often abbreviated to the SUCE, or in more natural spoken English, the patient survey.

August 1, 2011

Welcome to the blog

Inspired by the many excellent blogs about research, statistics, and computing I have finally decided to set up my own.