Here my very subjective view on the principles of academic success (still working on step 4…): To be successful as a master student, you have to be intelligent. To be successful as a doctorate student, you have to be intelligent and hard-working. To be successful as a post-doc, you have to be intelligent, hard-working, and…
If you ever wanted to feel as important as an emergency doctor helping people, but your nerdy skills as a data scientist or statistician did not seem to interest people, times are going to change. There are two organizations which allow you to contribute your professional knowledge to charity work. http://community.amstat.org/statisticswithoutborders/home/ http://www.datakind.org
Writing scientific texts in LaTeX and Emacs can be painful in many aspects, not least one having to format references in BibTex. Although reference managers exist which can export to BibTeX, and some Websites support BibTex export, this is cumbersome (requiring a lot clicks or keystrokes) or messy (BibTex fields are messed up or contain…
An updated version of ANNOVAR (2014nov12) is available. ANNOVAR is the most frequently used tool to annotate genomic variants with functional information. DOWNLOAD: http://www.openbioinformatics.org/annovar/download/g4EUwyphi9/annovar.latest.tar.gz
I just discovered the web-based hosting service Bitbucket/SourceTree (https://bitbucket.org) as an interface to various version control systems. The website and the local client SourceTree together implement a very convenient user interface to the MECURIAL and GIT (by Linus Torvalds) version control system. There are free (limited) accounts and the option to keep private and public…
A new journal having a broad perspective on statistics and science has been launched. The first (free) issue looks very promising with nice reviews on state of the art topics… URL: “Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application”
“Tim Harford explains – and sometimes debunks – the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life” BBC|More or less| Radio Show
The magazine “Forschung & Lehre” of the Deutscher Hochschulverband (DHV) published at Special Issue on “Big Data”. URL: http://www.forschung-und-lehre.de/wordpress/?page_id=302 BTW, “Significance” (2012/08) (not really current I know) also had a special issue on big data Following this issue, BBC2 broadcasted the feature “The Age of Big Data” as part of their “Horizon” science series
For those who want to stay in touch with other related blogs, here is a list: Statistical Genetics: http://gettinggeneticsdone.blogspot.de http://blog.goldenhelix.com http://yurii-aulchenko.blogspot.de (watch out, partially in Russian) R, General: http://www.r-statistics.com http://www.r-statistics.com/tag/hadley-wickham/ http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com http://www.r-bloggers.com
Functionality seems limited, but interesting for learning SAS … Citing the SAS web page (not necessarily my opinion): “The new SAS University Edition will offer free use of SAS foundational technologies, ideal for data and statistical analysis in teaching, research and self-paced learning. Available via quick download from the web, SAS University Edition will be…