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Rolando Acosta and I recently posted a manuscript on bioRxiv describing the effects of Hurricane María, based on an analysis of mortality d…

This week Hilary Parker and I have started our “Book Club” on Not So Standard Deviations where we will be discussing Nigel Cross’s book Des…

Jenny Bryan recently gave a wonderful talk at the Use R! 2018 meeting in Brisbane about “Code Smells and Feels” (I recommend you watch a vi…

Recently, Apple’s stock price rose to the point where the company’s market valuation was above $1 trillion, the first U.S. company to reach…

The Johns Hopkins Data Science Lab has been teaching massive online open courses for more than 5 years now. During that time we’ve reached …

What makes data science so difficult is that it starts in the wrong place. As a result, a certain amount of extra work must be done to unde…

Last Monday we launched our Chromebook Data Science Program so that anyone with an internet connection, a web browser, and the ability to r…

There are often discussions within the data science community about which tools are best for doing data science. The most recent iteration …

Hilary Parker and I just released part 2 of our book club discussion of Nigel Cross’s book Design Thinking and it centers around a profile …