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Feb 18, 2016
There's a great article by Jenna Tyler at IUPUI (who doesn't have a website?) on how to use green infrastructure for sustainable mitigation. The key take away is that FEMA could use…
Feb 16, 2016
I saw a job posting looking for programmers to make a chatbot. I've done this before, though it was almost 20 years ago. I created a chatbot in bash, mostly because my…
Feb 15, 2016
Sometime, approximately forever ago, I put together a small package to produce waterfall charts in R. It provided two functions, one using base graphics and one using lattice graphics. I planned to…
Feb 13, 2016
I am taking an online class in how to teach online classes. This is a bit meta and I've taught online since 2010, but that's okay. We have a group project in…
Feb 12, 2016
We keep hearing about Zika virus, and in pregnant women, can cause microcephalic births. That's pretty scary, but as a man who is not planning on having any children any time, I…
Feb 11, 2016
Pennsylvania has set up a new website, similar to the health care exchanges, that provides access to private flood insurance. Florida also has such a system and it is something we can…
Feb 10, 2016
Code coverage is not what it's cracked up to be. As an experiment, I started using Coveralls on two of my R projects, cmna and phonics . Both projects had unit testing…
Feb 9, 2016
Chase asked me why the MARC Train is not solar powered. I explained one line, the Penn Line, is electric and it gets power from many different sources, but the other two…
Feb 8, 2016
Last week, with a day to spare, I got my submission into the 2016 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM). My submission is something of a side project that grew out of my dissertation.…
Feb 4, 2016
After completing the Danish course last May, I was kind of at a loss for how to proceed. Duolingo rewards daily usage, so I did the completely rational thing and went all…
Feb 2, 2016
The Environmental Protection Agency has put together a only training course on adapting to climate change: ::embed{href="http://www.epa.gov/communityhealth/local-government-climate-adaptation-training"} This is actually really cool. The course is set up like a standard webinar, but…