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[QA'S Q&A] #6: Choosing Graduate School 10 Aug 2013 | 10:12 pm
Chào anh giai, We all know that applying to graduate school is not gonna be like college application. Neither is (I presume) choosing an “ideal” grad school/program for your next 5-or-more years. But...
Gotta plot ‘em all 26 Jun 2013 | 01:57 pm
While surfing the Internet and gasping for tidbits of fun here and there, I stumbled upon this April’s Fool post from my Duke colleagues. Extracting Pokemon data from Bulbapedia, he put together some ...
Create animated choropleth map [ggplot2, animation] 25 Jun 2013 | 09:15 am
For my anti-corruption report, let’s first of all demonstrate how severe corruption is in the world. I decided to let the picture say a thousand words. Instead of an interminable paragraph littered wi...
Quick thoughts on feminism 22 Jun 2013 | 10:01 am
For years my reservation about feminism persists, mainly because the level of discourse remains unsatisfactorily crude on even the most basic question–”Is there evidence of discrimination against wome...
The downside of being free 8 Jun 2013 | 04:29 pm
The other day I stumbled upon this graph, which shows the relative popularity of statistical softwares as a skill requirement in job postings. I was shocked that the top runners are SPSS and SAS, whos...
SAT answers database project 5 May 2013 | 06:21 pm
Since my blog is picking up huge and mysterious traffic again, all directed to the SAT Tieng Viet post, I want to take this chance to discuss a project of mine on the SAT. It aims to change the studyi...
Quick question for the new readers 27 Mar 2013 | 03:28 am
Today my blog got 500+ views and 300+ visitors–the highest since its conception despite the fact that I have not written anything much lately… I’m genuinely curious… Did someone publicize my SAT Tieng...
[QA'S Q&A] #5: Graduate School Application 30 Sep 2012 | 12:20 pm
Introduction I recently noticed how bizarre it is that I have stopped writing much, leaving this blog to languish and despair, despite the fact that writing is the single most important skill to my cu...
The moral equivalents of gay marriage 10 May 2012 | 01:27 pm
Let us skip all the usual rhetorical embellishments so that I can quickly get back to pretending that I care about my incoming finals. Gay marriage advocates sneer or enrage at the comparison between...
How to (finally!) look like a real Cover Girl 20 Jan 2012 | 06:41 am
I had fleeting thoughts of following this video with some profound discussions here — but seriously, who would ruin such a perfect laugh by analyzing it? Credit: Jesse Rosten
