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Continue reading →: Quality and Diversity, Especially Women in Tech
The newly launched R Consortium has announced its inaugural Board members, and not one of them is a woman. (Even more unfortunately, I don’t think any of them are active R users; although I’m sure he’s used it, the new President’s bio establishes him as a SAS and S-PLUS user.) Although…
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Continue reading →: A 15-Week Course to Introduce Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems in R
Every fall, I teach a survey course for advanced undergraduates that covers one of the most critical themes in data science: intelligent systems. According to the IEEE, these are “systems that perceive, reason, learn, and act intelligently.” While data science is focused on analyzing data (often quite a lot of it) to make effective…
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Continue reading →: Newsletter of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) Innovation Division – Issue #1, July 2015
MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR Our first newsletter is a milestone for the Innovation Division of ASQ. A special thanks goes to Nicole Radziwill, our newsletter editor, for bringing this together. Another milestone for the Division was achieved at this year’s World Conference. We were recognized as the Division with the highest percentage of…
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Continue reading →: Simulation for Data Science With R
Hey everyone! I just wanted to give you the heads up on a book project that I’ve been working on (which should be available by Spring 2016). It’s all about using the R programming language to do simulation — which I think is one of the most powerful (and overlooked) tools…
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Continue reading →: Improving the Quality of Your Writing
Morgan and I work with students to produce written reports all the time. Sometimes, they’re working on their senior capstone project, which culminates in a formal written thesis… other times, they are working on shorter reports. Ultimately, the goal of writing is to produce an artifact that will effectively communicate a specific…
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Continue reading →: Logistic Growth, S Curves, Bifurcations, and Lyapunov Exponents in RIf you’ve ever wondered how logistic population growth (the Verhulst model), S curves, the logistic map, bifurcation diagrams, sensitive dependence on initial conditions, “orbits”, deterministic chaos, and Lyapunov exponents are related to one another… this post explains it in just 10 steps, each with some code in R so you…
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A 15-Week Intro Statistics Course Featuring R
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Continue reading →: A 15-Week Intro Statistics Course Featuring RDo you teach introductory statistics or data science? Need some help planning your fall class? I apply the 10 Principles of Burning Man in the design and conduct of all my undergraduate and graduate-level courses, including my introductory statistics class (which has a heavy focus on R and data science)…
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Since 2008, I’ve been sharing insights and expertise on Digital Transformation & Data Science for Performance Excellence here. As a CxO, I’ve helped orgs build empowered teams, robust programs, and elegant strategies bridging data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML)… while building models in R and Python on the side. In 2025, I help leaders drive Quality-Driven Data & AI Strategies and navigate the complex market of data/AI vendors & professional services. Need help sifting through it all? Reach out to inquire – check out my new book that reveal the one thing EVERY organization has been neglecting – Data, Strategy, Culture & Power.
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