A few months ago I reviewed a new book on R, called Introduction to Scientific Programming and Simulation Using R, Second Edition, by Owen Jones, Robert Maillardet, and Andrew Robinson. I liked the book — R is becoming more popular and widely used as a language and tool to parse and process the …

Today, there have never been more opportunities for the independent artist–writer, musician, video creator–to perform their craft and get paid for their efforts by their fans.

But that doesn’t mean it’s going to be easy.

When Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn, the duo forming the indie band Pomplamoose, …

With the explosion of the amount of data available, the need for stronger data analysis tools than Excel has grown. Fortunately one of the best data analysis tools, R, is also free. This book, A Handbook of Statistical Analyses using R, Third Edition, by Torsten Hothorn and Brian Everitt, provides …