The Crow Paradox
Although we can't tell individual crows apart (even experienced crow handlers have…
Nail-biting finish for Netflix Prize
30 days ago, BellKor Pragmatic Chaos submitted a prize-qualifying entry for the…
Scraping data from the Web with R
Sometimes the data we need isn't packaged up nicely into a simple…
Improving the responsiveness of websites with R
Philip Jacob wanted to improve the responsiveness of the website for StyleFeeder.com…
The evil bastard child of game theory and behavioral economics
Swoopo.com is an online auction site where you can buy things like…
Benford’s Law, Zipf’s Law and the Pareto Distribution
Over the past few weeks we've seen several examples of power-law distributions…