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DECISION STATS
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DECISION STATS is a personal blog at decisionstats.com about data and programming. Since 2009, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters list DECISION STATS among blogs on R, data mining and analytics tools, and mention SAS in relation to competitors. The comments are bare link lists and do not assess the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Better Decisions === Faster Stats
What Hacker News says?
SAS Institute, one of the most valuable privately held compaies in the US, has been fighting against run-alike and data-compatability challengers for decades. This is particularly ironic as the company itself was founded based on mainframe storage and interface technologies -- the SAS program editor and interactive environment through the 1990s was based on the IBM TSO/ISPF environment. Earlier challenges included t…
Comment linking /2009/08/28/software-history-bass-institute-part-1/
on “Reverse engineering of competitor’s software cost company big”Submitted Software HIStory: Bass Institute (2009) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionin my google reader: http://blog.revolution-computing.com/ http://learnr.wordpress.com/ http://www.decisionstats.com/ http://anyall.org/blog/ -------------------------- http://ask.metafilter.com/116762/Rrrrrgh http://alittleknowledge.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/r-for-pedes... and some portals: http://planetr.stderr.org/ http://info.smu.edu.sg/rsite/
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on “Ask HN: Using R”Submitted KDnuggets Poll -Is Rapid Miner 3 Times More Used as SAS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI would learn thoroughly lib/frameworks like "R" (and ggplot2, very cool), weka and the python suite numpy / scipy, matplotlib ----------------------------- look at all the books out now. I think Witten/Franke (authors of weka) was the first one titled "Data Mining" but there's a slew of htem, read Amazon reviews --------------------- hit the blogosphere http://www.dataminingblog.com/2009/01/30/three-new-data-mini..…
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on “Ask HN: Good ways to become a professional data miner?”Submitted Interview Michael J. A. Berry Data Miners, Inc as a story · 1 points
HN discussion