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Cluster Analysis on R

By Camilo Posted on June 6, 2018 Posted in Academia, Society No Comments

This was going to be a magic post about clustering an it amazing abilities to find out hidden gems, gaining insight from the data, reducing a problem to a manageable situation, or better explaining a given situation to business partners …

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Working on Data Analysis

By Camilo Posted on October 9, 2014 Posted in Academia No Comments

And then somebody tells me that the technique I am using was developed only three years ago, and you can’t find information about it. Seriously? this thing is as old as WWII.

Taming the swarm

By Camilo Posted on March 10, 2014 Posted in Academia, BI No Comments

The continuous attempts to tame the flood of information have a lot in common with detecting emergent patterns in complex systems: we look for a deterministic model that can explain the behavior detected in the large number of observations, present …

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Grad student means coffee and cakes

By Camilo Posted on November 10, 2011 Posted in Academia No Comments

As Honey B. says, and Angela confirms, grad school is a parade of books an articles made bearable by the continuous supply of caffeine and sugar. Nothing prepares you to the insane rhythm of grad school and the relentless pursuit …

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Happy Pi Day

By Camilo Posted on March 14, 2009 Posted in Academia No Comments

And today we all celebrate our Happy Pi Day! But I learned that MArch 14 is actually National Pi Day, approved by Congress and all. Pi shows everywhere, and not just for being trascendent, but because it might even be …

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Tagged with: math

Gender and imagery in science

By Camilo Posted on February 4, 2009 Posted in Academia, Gender and Relationships, Science, Sex No Comments

It is interesting to note how our own cultural biases change and sometimes impede the scientific research. That is the case in fertilization, as Emily Martin studied: In fact, biologists could have figured out a hundred years ago that sperm …

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Tagged with: gender, research, Science

Digital library

By Camilo Posted on August 15, 2006 Posted in Academia No Comments

I would have thought that UCali would be the first in the Google panopticon, but at least they are there in their partnership now. “The academic enterprise is fundamentally about discovery,” said John Oakley, chair of UC’s systemwide Academic Senate …

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Open CMS

By Camilo Posted on January 25, 2006 Posted in Academia, Blogging, Technology No Comments

A few projects have come up in which I will be deciding over a CMS, and naturally, open source is the way to go. I like the clear and concise path that Seth Gottlieb indicates for choosing a CMS, including …

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Rain in NJ

By Camilo Posted on November 17, 2005 Posted in Academia, Environment No Comments

It turns out that old New Jersey is at danger because of rising sea levels, The Princeton University researchers also projected that as much as 9 percent of the state’s low-lying land could be hit by periodic coastal flooding in …

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