Noah Spies

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Photography

Momo — a translation of a brief excerpt of one of my favorite adult children's books, Momo, written by Michael Ende (author of The Neverending Story, which is even better than the movie based upon it). Unfortunately, the English translation of Momo isn't easy to get here in the US.

Statistics Tutorial

A gentle introduction to statistics using simulation in R. Assumes no math or programming knowledge, although it's probably helpful to have a programmer on hand to answer questions. You'll need to install R, available at r-project.org (main project page) or RKWard (an alternative graphical user interface).

• Statistics With R (pdf)
• Accompanying R Code(text file)
  

This Statistics Tutorial by Noah Spies is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Links

Norvig's why PowerPoint caused the space shuttle Columbia disaster (see also Edward Tufte's analysis).

A minimalist style for scientific presentations. Good advice all around.

The MIT RNA Journal Club commentary.

MIT's Science Policy Initiative, a mostly graduate student organization promoting scientist understanding of, and involvement in, science policy.

Noah Spies, March 2010