This week NYU hosted a Software Carpentry Bootcamp along with Berkeley and U. Washington (the other institutes in the Moore-Sloan data science environment). I sat in on the python classes (there were also classes in R). However, on Monday, there was a huge announcement from the BICEP2 collaboration about the …

Particle physicisits primarily use ROOT for the data analysis framework. Part of that framework is a package called RooFit statistical modeling and fitting package. I have contributed to this package and added a layer on top called RooStats that provides with statistical inference in both frequentist and Bayesian paradigms based …

Wow, perhaps this is my first real blog post since rebooting thoeryandpractice.org.
And really one of my first blog posts ever.

I'm back from a really invigorating trip to CERN to give some statistics lectures to the CERN summer school. I played around with d3.js, a cool javascript …

A quick test of inserting an HTML file with some D3 magic into a wordpress post using the iframe trick I found here