New blog post: Understanding mixture models and expectation-maximization (using baseball statistics) varianceexplained.org/r/mixture-mode… #rstats

Just posted: FiveThirtyEight summer #internships in: -Data reporting -Copy editing -Podcast/video -Dataviz Apply! 53eig.ht/2iaQfga

Looking for someone to do (paid) #rstats-related administration/devops/build-system stuff. Let me know if you're interested or know someone

A New Year is the perfect excuse to learn some new skills! #rstudio #python #statisticalcomputing #UBC

library(purrr) #rstats

.UBC Statistics hiring 2 data scientists/statisticians in the Applied Statistics and Data Science Group University of British Columbia stat.ubc.ca/statistical-co… #rstats

Harvard's #DataScience Initiative is seeking applications for its inaugural Postdoctoral Fellows Program. datascience.harvard.edu/funding-opport…

Bioconductor #rstats core team scientific programmer and senior systems analyst jobs! support.bioconductor.org/p/91548/

I'm writing an open source Introduction to Unix book and the first chapter is finished! You can read it here: github.com/seankross/the-…

Social science grad students who aren't 100% sure you'll be professors: make sure your department teaches you how to program.

SSC 2017: Travel support for Students up to $750! Apply by March 15, 2017 ow.ly/w47M308KDKW #rstats #statistics #ssc2017wpg

We're continuing our two-week workshop on analyzing high throughput sequencing data! ivory.idyll.org/blog/2017-dibs… - June 26-July 8th at UC Davis!

Hey academics - we've officially launched DataCamp for the Classroom. 100% free. More info here - bit.ly/2l7ZtLU

FUN FACT: Many graduates still use Student's t-test because their employers won't pay for the full t-test licence

STAT545 is recruiting TAs for this fall. Interested UBC grad students should reach out to gvdr or @VincenzoCoia #rstats

We will be posting lectures, homework and other material used in our Introduction to #DataScience course here: datasciencelabs.github.io

Students - take a break from the textbooks. My fellow Azure Dev Advocates and I are coming to your campus to teach you some real world #cloud development. It'll be fun 😀 University of British Columbia 4/3 Howard University 4/5 UT Austin 4/9 USC 4/10 UC Berkeley 4/11 University of Washington 4/17 Register here: aka.ms/azureutoursign…