Tea & Stats

Why are entrance kerbs in Germany so absurdly high?

At the railway station, a lost-looking US soldier asked me if I spoke English.

Overleaf, formerly known as Share$\LaTeX$, is the go-to collaborative document editor for many researchers, who have taken advantage of its free tier.

There is a widespread critique that too many pundits fail to make measurable predictions.

Sports prediction has exploded in the last couple of decades with entire journals, conferences and books devoted to it.

Everybody knows that R is an inferior programming language, because vector indices start from 1, whereas in real programming languages like C and Python, array indexing begins from 0.

It’s that time of year again.

R 4.1.0 has been released and has a couple of handy new features.

A common task in data analysis is to merge or join two tables according to shared keys or values.

Advent of Code is a series of programming puzzles you can tackle to hone your coding skills each day in the run-up to Christmas.

My brother wrote to me this week with an interesting task: I’ve got a list of films I’ve noted down whenever I’ve seen a good review.

How many different ways are there to create an identity matrix in R?

Buying milk in France is not like at home.

I have just moved to Paris ahead of a six-month internship.

I have just published an interactive graphic showing the effect of ranking scientific communities with pairwise comparison models.

Neural networks can seem like a bit of a black box.

I just discovered a way to get R running on my smartphone, with full support for packages, graphics and R Markdown, and no need to connect to an external server.

Next week I will be presenting a poster at the useR!

I am pleased to introduce my first R package for general consumption, ggChernoff.

Yihui Xie’s new blogdown package is a brilliantly elegant and simple tool for creating R-themed blogs and web sites.

Last summer I took part in an internship with the fledgling Alan Turing Institute at the British Library in London.

When knitting an R Markdown document to HTML output, R chunks can produce warnings, errors or messages.

GitHub Pages' built-in Jekyll support makes it very easy for techie types to deploy static web sites.

Our office just exchanged presents for Secret Santa, a tradition where each person is randomly assigned someone else to give an anonyous gift.

Here is my poster that I presented at the 2nd IMA Conference on the Mathematical Challenges of Big Data in London on 1st–2nd December 2016.

I have just moved to the University of Warwick to start my PhD in Statistics.

Despite living in the capital city of Scotland, my home broadband speeds (especially upload speeds) are painfully slow.

Today I took part in the Lego Calculator Challenge, an event that was run as part of Edinburgh University’s Innovative Learning Week.

This evening saw the Netherlands face Spain for their first match in the group stage of the 2014 Fifa World Cup. 604 score predictions were made on Twitter in the hour before kick-off.

As part of my first foray into data science, I decided to have a go at opinion mining on Twitter.

The set of all t makes the perfect tea set for mathematicians and other numerate geeks.

Where is a student’s tea distributed?

Contours magazine is a student publication produced by the University of Edinburgh School of Mathematics, featuring interviews with maths lecturers.