Minding the Brain

I spent last week at a two-part meeting on language in developmental and acquired disorders , hosted by the Royal Society . The organizers...

For almost every manuscript I've been involved with, my co-authors and I have had to have a discussion about where (to which journal) w...

I'm often in the position of needing to compare groups of either items or participants on some set of variables. For example, I might ...

Dale Barr ( @datacmdr ) recently had a nice blog post about coding categorical predictors , which reminded me to share my thoughts abou...

The new version of R was released yesterday. As I understand it, the numbering change to 3.0 represents the recognition that R had evolved...

(via Flowing Data ) For the last few years I have been using the ggplot2  package to make all of my figures. I had used Matlab previou...

In my last blog post I wrote about impact factors and h-index for different journals. That got me wondering about what the h5 index is for...