Jeromy Anglim discusses best practices and tools used to support reproducible research in R. He discusses tools for R scripting and version control; and provides examples of SWeave. This presentation was given to the Melbourne R Users Group (MelbURN) on December 1, 2010.
When, in June 2011, indigenous Peruvian farmers attempted to take over a regional airport in the southern province of Chucuito, security forces opened fire. Six protestors were killed and 30 more wounded.
Farmers said they were driven to this deadly protest by fears they would be thrown off their land and that water supplies could be polluted if a proposed silver mine in the remote mountains near Lake Titicaca went ahead.
Um was geht es in den einzelnen Kapiteln von TTIP? Wo besteht weitgehende Einigkeit zwischen der EU und den USA, wo gibt es grundlegende Differenzen? An dieser Stelle erklären wir es – und zeigen in unserem Verhandlungsbarometer auf einen Blick, wie weit die Verhandlungen gediehen sind.
Deutschland darf dem umstrittenen Freihandelsabkommen Ceta vorläufig zustimmen - das haben die Verfassungsrichter entschieden. Doch die Bedingungen, die sie stellen, sind strenger als gedacht.
Wolfram is most interested in looking for signals about how a person and their life changes over time, and Facebook data provides plenty. | shorter: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/514186/lifes-trajectory-seen-through-facebook-data/