The problem

We all have to complete tutorials to learn new languages. One constant pain is that the tutorials are usually trapped in pdf's when we need to type code. Emacs makes this problem go away through its doc-view mode which allows you to render pdf's in Emacs. The problem …

When someone says: 'I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done', give him a lollipop. ~Alan J. Perlis

The problem

Javascript can be notoriusly difficult to debug if you are coming from a language with tight degugger integration like C/C++ or Java …

Switched to Mac

My switch to the Mac meant that I was making more typing mistakes and on one them I was always getting to Emacs to freeze. I looked like this:

I switched to the Mac last summer. I was given one for work. I would never buy one …

Update

On November 3, I gave a talk at the Emacsnyc meetup on reproducible research. I will get a link to the presentation up soon.

You can view the presentation:

And here is the github:

http://github.com/EvanMisshula/rr" target="\_blank\">rr repo

I have developed a Zen-like approach to the operating systems that people use: 'When you're ready, the right operating system will appear in your life.' ~Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist of Canva, an online graphic design tool. Formerly, he was an advisor to the Motorola business unit of Google …

Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable. ¹ ~Bobby Bragan, 1963

Encountering data

Here we will describe the techniques you should use to give yourself and your readers/bosses/teachers …

R foundations

In God we trust. All others must bring data. ~ W. Edwards Demming

R console

Start an R buffer through ess by typing M-x R. See the earlier tutorial here or here if that is mystery. At the console type:

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Making your editor do statistics

All models are wrong, but some are useful.¹ ~George E. P. Box

Why is ESS useful?

ESS makes your command history searchable and modifiable. When you start doing statistics you think you will always remember what you did and instantly recall why you did …

Emacs

What I cannot build, I do not understand. — Richard Feynman

Why Emacs?

• This section is borrows heavily from Stephen Elgen and Phil Sung

The long answer (though still far from complete)

Emacs provides the same editing commands available for each language you are using. This is a big advantage …

Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS)

ESS is a library (package) for Emacs which allows it to interact with a number of statistical packages including S+, R, SaS, SPSS and Stata. For the purpose of these notes. We will only deal with R. It allows the command history to be searchable and …

Intro

A number of my colleagues need to analyze data and are learning a programming language for the first time. It does not need to be said, this is a very heavy lift and occurs in the presence of a wide diversity of well intentioned opinion. It also occurs in …

credit

I am trying to explain the ethos and social convention of FREE software. People have created software and they let you use it and modify it for free. Is only polite to extend them

academic courtesy and cite them for their contribution. Also it makes sense because you point …

Update

On May 5, I gave a lightning talk at the Emacsnyc meetup on the state of the Emacs IPthon notebook. A big thank you to Eric from http://emacsnyc.org for his extraordinary linux vs audio-visual equipment efforts.

My usage history

Back in 2009, one of the first advantages that made me play around with Emacs again when I went back to graduate school was Emacs-Speaks-Statistics. It allowed me to avoid the pain of using the R-console which was frankly a miserable experience. The deficiencies of that interface …

Motivation

It was this week during the project pitch exercise here at the Data Science For Social Good that I fell down a rabbit hole. I wanted to get summary statistics on foreclosures and land values for each of Chicago's 50 wards.  Of course I was not doing that when …

Motivation

It was this week during the project pitch exercise here at the Data Science For Social Good that I fell down a rabbit hole. I wanted to get summary statistics on foreclosures and land values for each of Chicago's 50 wards.  Of course I was not doing that when …

Most of the time you read about setting up virtual environments, it is for web development. But the same benefits hold for analysis and research software. You want to be able to reproduce results. It also increases security not to be adding all the unverified libraries with machine level privileges …

Packages

The Emacs package system is far from perfect. The most proficient users of Emacs are unaffected by this flaw. Many users of Emacs are experts who live at the bleeding edge of the linux kernel and gcc compiler. This guide is for the mere mortals who have used Emacs …

Welcome to my blog

This is my first blog post using the IPython notebook. I am very excited about the things it can do.

Here is what I want to cover

1. Who I am
2. What the blog will cover
3. Why I named it Measure of Justice

Evan Misshula

I am …

So I was able to get this to post to my blog. However I was not able to get it to work here. Since then, to my surprise I have found myself working less with the visually amazing, but temperamental iPython and more with Emacs org-mode.

The ability to toggle …