“If everyone knows a thing it’s almost for sure it aint so.” “It’s not so much the things you don’t know that hurt you as the things you know for sure that aint so.” I don’t take anyone’s word for anything. Take those quotes, for example, which I’ve both heard attributed to Mark Twain, Will…
I was disappointed to see that the Open Data community is pretty inactive over at data.gov. With 305,000 datasets and counting released you’d think there’d be more than a handful of people posting over there. I decided I would start on my own with the TIMSS data. This is the Trends in International Mathematics and…
True confessions: I just don’t get the data hackathon I am old. If I was not aware of this by looking at my U.S. birth certificate (which, like President Obama, I do have), I have America’s most spoiled thirteen-year-old to tell me, “You’re old.” (sometimes followed by – “and stupid” if I have just told…
Anyone who tells you they know all of SAS is like that creepy guy at the fraternity party who swears that his father is the Duke of Canada, that is, they have a perception of themselves that is not in screaming distance of contact with reality. Even though I have been using SAS for decades,…
I’ve never understood masochists. Back in the days when I was competing I would regularly get calls from creepy men who were willing to pay me big bucks to beat them up. As one of my lovely daughters said of the sumo wrestler who sent her a picture of himself posing in his diaper-thingie and…