I don’t mean to shamelessly self-promote here, but I wanted to note that the Slice story on my pizza paper (pdf) has also been picked up by NBC New York’s food blog, Feast, and by Revolution Computing’s blog. For people who don’t know, Revolution Computing optimizes R, the language used by a large number of statisticians for… Continue reading
The Slice article got picked up by MidtownLunch. A lot of people have been asking for my favorite pizza places. The answer depends on what type of pizza I’m looking for, but Maffei’s grandma slice and and Keste are two places that pop into my head a lot. Someone at the ML forum asked about… Continue reading
Slice has a nice writeup of a paper I wrote performing a statistical analysis of New York City. The article is nicely written and distills the analysis to the parts people will care about. See here for the corresponding PowerPoint presentation. Related Posts The virtual 2021 R Government & Public Sector Conference is coming December 9th &… Continue reading
My team at Lander Analytics has been putting together conferences for six years, and they’ve always had the same fun format, which the community has really enjoyed. There’s the NYR conference for New Yorkers and those who want to fly, drive or train to join the New York community, and there’s DCR, which gathers the… Continue reading
Ten years ago Josh Reich held the first ever New York Open Statistical Programming Meetup at Union Square Ventures. Back then it was called the New York R Meetup and 21 people RSVP’d. I discovered the Meetup three months later thanks to Andrew Gelman’s blog and by then the RSVP count had doubled and Drew… Continue reading
On Pi Day this year I was giving a keynote talk at DataFest in Scotland, so we celebrated Pi Day a week later, on the 21st. While it wasn’t the exact date, there’s never a bad time to eat pizza and Pi Cake. This was the tenth Pi Cake, and it’s pretty hard to beat… Continue reading
The 2018 New York R Conference was the biggest and best yet. This is both in terms of the crowd size and content. The speakers included some of the R community’s best such as Hadley Wickham, David Robinson, Jennifer Hill, Max Kuhn, Andreas Mueller (ok, a little Python), Evelina Gabasova, Sean Taylor and Jeff Ryan.… Continue reading
It’s Pi Day, when we celebrate all things round by eating pizza and Pi Cake. This is the ninth year we have celebrated Pi Day and the fourth year in a row we got the Pi Cake from Empire Cakes. This year’s pizza place was Arturo’s on Thompson and Houston. Arturo’s is a great example… Continue reading
Snowstorm Stella impacted both our numbers and our location, but last night a smaller crew braved the cold weather and messy streets to celebrate Pi Day with pizza and Pi Cake at Ribalta. We naturally ate a lot of round pies and even a rectangular pie to honor Hippocrates’ squaring the lune. This year’s Pi Cake came… Continue reading
Been a busy few weeks with the New York R Conference, speaking engagements, writing the second edition of R for Everyone and coding open source packages. The most exciting news involves the news as the Wall Street Journal wrote an article about my NFL Draft work. It is a great piece with some nice quotes from the… Continue reading
