December 2010
3 posts
Good homepage design
The home page has an identifying logo and contains or has links to:
* a site map
* contact information
* information about the organization responsible
* a site feedback form or pointers to a discussion group
* assurances as to security and privacy
* related sites
* Information on the technology needed to view subsequent pages in the site (e.g. browser versions, necessary downloads, file...
November 2010
0 posts
Machine Learning
This is a list of textbooks about machine learning which are (a) really good, and (b) free on the web. The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction, by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and Jerome Friedman (deep coverage of an important subset of the field)
Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms, by David MacKay (very mathematical approach,...
R Reference Material
This post contains pointers to R reference materials, and will be updated. Google search for R Tutorial
An Introduction to R (pdf), from the central R web site, something between a tutorial and a manual
Jo Hardin’s R Tutorial (pdf), shorter
Notes from Thomas Lumley’s two-day short course in R
Video R Tutorial
Short html R Tutorial with implausibly poor colour choice
Short...