I recently spoke with a friend who was working with a large dataset of information about head injury patients they are using in a research project. I’ve always said that for every day you expect to spend in data analysis, you can expect a week in data management just to prepare your dataset for analysis. [...]

Transit is a very important subject in any urban area but it becomes even more important in larger or high density areas like the Lower Mainland. Today CBC reported on a decision by Vancouver mayors to improve revenues for Translink, the company responsible for managing transit in the lower mainland. Unfortunately, in trying to raise [...]

As a Saskatchewan native, I’m a huge fan of the Roughriders and the Canadian Football League (CFL) in general. My love of football collided with my love of technology when I decided to follow CFL games using my on-line calendar. The official CFL website does offer team schedules in iCal that can be imported into [...]

I’ve just answered my first question on programming Q & A website stackoverflow. I’ve been following the statistics tag by RSS for a little while now and this is the first I’ve seen someone asking a question on the site. There is, however, quite a following on the official Stata e-mail list if one ever [...]

For those like myself who have recently switched to the Linux operating system, installing programs that are not in the Ubuntu repositories can be a challenge at times. I recently installed the statistical analysis program Stata on my computer running the latest stable version of Linux Mint Gloria, which is a fork of the popular [...]