We started this Kickstarter campaign a little over a week ago. For those of you who are considering it, here are a few things I learned 1.Kickstarter was not nearly as well-known as I expected from my non-random sample of close family and friends. Many people outside that group, when I mentioned it said, “What?…
In The Christmas Choir, a nun asks a Wall Street businessman volunteering at the homeless shelter what the meaning of life is. He guesses to be happy. She says, “The meaning of life is to be useful.” I thought of that this week when someone on twitter commented on all of the different activities I…
I was going to use SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3 with SAS On-Demand to do my mixed model analysis, but it did not quite work out. First of all, if like me you are used to doing PROC GLM where each subject is one record, you have to change your dataset to be one where each…
The truth is, what I wanted to be talking about today was either data mining, text mining or mixed models. Those are three things I want to be doing more and would be doing more except that we have a Kickstarter campaign going on to fund the next six levels of our game that teaches…
Logan can kiss my wrinkled, grey ass. I’m 54 years old. I don’t say I’m 54 years young or you’re only as old as you feel because some days I feel 92. I feel zero impulse to go get a facelift or any other procedure to make me look younger so I can compete with…
@xek tweeted that “Almost everyone who does twitter stats is a fucking moron”. I was going to say that no one really knows what the hell is going on when it comes to social media, but I believe his estimate adds a greater level of precision. For example, the tweet reach tool tells me that…
Let’s make a deal. Would you trade me 30 years of your life for this house in Malibu? Say, you are 25 now, so, instead of living to 78, you’d live to be 48. Would you trade? If I threw in a really nice car, all the newest computers, iPhones, big-screen TVs and a new…
Since it’s the international year of statistics, I felt a little guilty that I have not done that much in the way of statistics lately. However, I think that is true whether you are an engineer, statistician, biologist or whatever, within a few years after your Ph.D. (at most!) you find lots of your time…
We’re waiting by the phone, um, computer to find that our Kickstarter project is (we hope!) approved. In the meantime, our Chief Marketing Officer asked me why there was a need for documentation, which is one of the expenses that would be funded from the crowd. It’s like this – we started writing a game…
Some days, the world seems to be divided into two groups; idiots who annoy me and people I haven’t yet met. The largest group of idiots who annoy me are those that tell me how much they want to help small business. This includes most government agencies at all levels and just about every non-profit…