- To give this year’s April Fools’ day a more analytical touch, here are The 7 Funniest Data Cartoons.
- Xi’an discusses a new paper by Scott Schmidler and his Ph.D. student Douglas VanDerwerken called Parallel MCMC.
- Tim Harford of Financial Times shares his thoughts on Big Data in an article called Big data: are we making a big mistake?
- David Springate publishes three very useful R articles this week: Develop in RStudio, run in RScript, Functional programming in R, and Two R tutorials for beginners.
- And finally, Revolution Analytics summarizes some recent news and reports on how the rise of the “R” computer language brings open source to science.