Nathan VanHoudnos (@nathanvan) profile picture

Data Scientist and applicable statistician

Pittsburgh, PA
Joined January 2009
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As a nation, we need to stop using fake, prepackaged cheese slices, and get back to eating high quality ingredients. #MakeAmericaGrateAgain
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I would like to have phonetic pronunciations of names standard on resumes and CVs. Perhaps call it a #phoname?
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parallelsugar: An implementation of mclapply for Windows. edustatistics.org/nathanvan/… #rstats
. @kalltuck Awesome program evaluation syllabus: pppm.uoregon.edu/sites/pppm2… Would you be willing to share the course packet?
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My most common Latex compilation error is misspelling \lambda.
If Jesus is your co-pilot, he is my co-PI. Only by his grace is this grant getting done...
In latex, zz^\top is an outer product. This makes me happy.
Dear Comcast rep: this is the deal that was advertised. Will you honor it?
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#rstats gurus: Any examples of someone writing an applied stats paper as a vignette inside of a custom R package? #reproducibleresearch
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Introducing `rstanmulticore` a cross-platform #rstats package to run Stan MCMC chains in parallel wp.me/p2NsOX-iT
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Nathan VanHoudnos retweeted
If you feel led to give to Nepal, recommend with @charitywater or @WorldVision / both been there for decades and high functioning.
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NSF funded a REU (Hi-CLIMB) to send me to Nepal. My earthquake fundraising page: mycause.worldvision.org/inde… via @DonorDrive
The Secret Weapon for Evernote is okay, but it misses the power of a master note: gieglas.com/799-evernote-pro…
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Tinderizer extracts articles from the web and transfers them to your kindle. It works amazing well. Use it! tinderizer.com/
Nathan VanHoudnos retweeted
Another semester of Lean Entrepreneurship starts tonight - my TA @MattCrespi all of modern finance in 2 sentences
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. Ruth Neild: @WhatWorksED website receives 8k visits per day, far more than any other clearinghouse. #SREE2015
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Nathan VanHoudnos retweeted
Full #SREE2015 program and paper abstracts here: sree.org/conferences/2015s/p….
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The median intervention report from the What Works Clearinghouse is based on only two studies. (Foster, LaSota, & Yeide) #SREE2015