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 …