Before you decide you want to start a business, be sure you understand the difference between: Doing whatever you want. Owning a business. Not having anyone tell you what to do. Here is what I wanted to do in the past month: A lot of php A lot of javascript Write a new computer game…
If you know of any African-American women executives (or are such a person yourself), please read on … Shanetta was a student in my Advanced Quantitative Data Analysis class last year and is certain to be someone you’ll hear about in the years ahead. Help her out now and you can honestly claim to have…
It is the International Year of Statistics so all statisticians are obligated to tell you why statistics are so rocking awesome. Here is my two cents worth – I’m not a morning person. No, you have NO idea. I feel bad about it sometimes when I am having my lunch break at 10:30 pm, but…
Very often, researchers (including me) use multiple-choice tests to collect data to determine whether or not an intervention has worked. Does the Dance Your Way to Math curriculum really result in higher test scores? Does Lollipop Spelling reduce the number of spelling errors? and on and on. I remember being told that statistics to be…
This is number seven. You can find 1, 2 & 3 here and 4-6 here. “I went to a strip club once. I looked around and thought, ‘All of these guys are complete losers.’ Then I asked myself what was I doing here. I must be a loser, too. I got up and left and…
Today, someone asked me, “Is it really true that guy you see on the Internet with all of the question marks on him, that it’s possible to get a government grant for anything?” In a word, no. People come to me all of the time with ideas that not even your own mother would fund….
Today, I’d like to add #4 to 6 to my list of things I have learned in my 55 years. (You can find the first three here.) These are: You were hired to DO shit. No, you are NOT smarter than God. LISTEN!! #4 You were hired to DO shit Newly-minted PhDs are only marginally…
“Ebrary? Oh, yeah, I think the university where I teach has that, but I wasn’t interested so I never looked into it.” So said a young professor today when I mentioned ebrary. I actually had looked into it years ago when I worked at a different university. It was all right but I could only…
I forgot how old I was for a while. Someone asked me how old The Rocket Scientist is and I said 57, then I had to think how that could be when he is three years older than me. So, yes, I will be 55 this year. I guess turning 54 happened when I was…
Wednesday, I went to a workshop, Mixed Models for Professors. It was a combination of discussion of the mathematics of mixed models, using SAS Enterprise Guide and examples for teaching. Since I was too lazy to actually take notes, I just tweeted it. Three useful pieces of advice, even if you don’t like my notes:…