I’m a Wikimedian, based in Sydney. I am a project officer for ARC Centre for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCi) working on helping Australian cultural organisations use Creative Commons. I’m also the 2012 Director’s Fellow at the National Museum of Australia. My username everywhere is “Wittylama” - an anagram. I speak French and Swedish, have a bachelors in Globalisation Studies and one highly prized university medal. Currently studying for a Masters in IP law from QUT/WIPO.
Statistics
Tales of Statisticians
Statistics too has its heroes, and it may humanize the subject to mention some of them here. Mathematical details have been avoided, and the history of philosophy has been largely evaded, but these sketches may at least help to suggest that statistical techniques emerged a step at a time, for real reasons, that real people invented them, and that once they were invented, real people sometimes further refined them, or continued to argue about their validity and implications.
* Thomas Bayes
* Eric Temple Bell
* Jacob Bernoulli
* Henry Thomas Buckle
* George B Dantzig
* Florence Nightingale David
* Abraham de Moivre
* Albert Einstein
* Ronald A Fisher
* Galileo Galilei
* Carl Friederich Gauss
* Corrado Gini
* Boris Gnedenko
* William S Gosset ("Student")
* Andrei Kolmogorov
* William Kruskal
* Pierre-Simon Laplace
* Lucien Le Cam
* Pierre de Montmort
* Frederick Mosteller
* John Napier
* Isaac Newton
* Jerzy Neyman
* Florence Nightingale
* Blaise Pascal
* Karl Pearson
* Siméon-Denis Poisson
* Adolphe Quetelet
* Jimmie Savage
* George Snedecor
* Charles Spearman
* Frank Wilcoxon
This is the web site for a new book I'm working on for Apress which will contain interviews with around twenty of the most interesting computer programmers alive today. It will be a companion volume to Apress’s Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston, an
Die Buchform und halbjährliche Erscheinungsweise mit jeweiligem Schwerpunktthema sind von uns bewußt gewählt worden: Popkultur bedeutet uns mehr als ein Wegwerfprodukt. Ausgiebig recherchierte Artikel und historische Überblicksdarstellungen sind uns