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Essential MATLAB and Octave
As probably some of you know, I am currently writing a book about MATLAB and Octave focussed at new comers to both programming and the MATLAB/Octave environments. The book is tentatively entitled “Essential MATLAB and Octave” and I am getting closer and closer to getting the text finished. The next step is preparing exercises and finalising things. My publisher, CRC Press, has been great and I hope the book does well. I’m aiming to…
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LondonR – Shiny
I had the chance to attend the latest LondonR meeting last week. It was a good interesting gathering and I was pleasantly surprised to see that it was well attended by a variety of like-minded people. The meeting had talks by Andy South – Making beautiful world maps with country-referenced data using rworldmap and other R packages Malcolm Sherrington – Algorithmic Trading with R Chris Beeley – Shiny happy web interfaces – Shiny, HTML,…
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Now Reviewing
Now reviewing: Modern Statistical Methods for Astronomy with R Applications
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Now Reviewing: Statistical Data Analysis by A Bevan
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Now reading: Visualize This by Nathan Yau
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Now Reading: Flatland by E Abbot Abbott
Now reading Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott was published in 1884. Edwin Abbott Abbott used the pseudonymous “A Square” to talk about a two-dimensional world, pointing out observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture. However, the book’s more enduring contribution is its examination of mathematical dimensions.
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Now Reading… The Invisible Man
Now Reading… The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells