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A few jjplot updates
Eytan and I have been actively exploring lots of crazy new ideas in jjplot, a new plotting library for R. Here’s a quick rundown of recent changes. We’d love to hear what you guys think Formulae. The...
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ePluribus: Ethnicity on Social Networks
is the name of the paper I wrote with Lars, Itamar, and Cameron. It will appear at this year’s ICWSM. You may commence bating those breaths.
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Using jjplot to explore tipping behavior
In this post, I’ll show off some recent changes to jjplot that we think are really cool. To help motivate these changes, I’ll walk through them using the tips dataset included with the reshape package....
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Slides from some recent talks
Recently I had the honor of being invited to give a couple of talks in the Boston area. One at NESCAI and one at NESS. I had a great time and the feedback from the audiences was awesome. A shout out to...
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Oh god, now there’s another video of me online
Recently I got to participate on a panel / give a talk as a part of the NAE Seattle Grand Challenges Summit. Let me thank Ed Lazowska for putting together such a great panel — Alon Halevy, Larry Smarr...
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A new home for Facebook data team publications
Brendan (who will be joining us this summer, natch!) pointed out yesterday that we don’t have a repository for the papers we’ve published here at Facebook. We moved fast. Now you can find them by...
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Some quick updates
It was mentioned to me at NIPS that not everyone is on Facebook all the time and so it behooves me to post a few links here of some stuff that’s happened over the past few months. I’ll be better about...
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Pipes in R
The other day someone posted a link to this python package which provides a bash-style pipe operator to manipulate streams through a series of transformers. It seemed like a cool and powerful way of...
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Baseball on Facebook
Some of you might be interested in a little analysis we did of baseball fandom on Facebook. Baseball season is in full swing again! March 31st was opening day for Major League Baseball and while we...
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Yet another R package for learning Ising models
You can get it here: https://github.com/slycoder/Rflim Read this for a quick explanation: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150359708746212
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