Day 770 of 1000
There is a post over at the Simply Statistics blog that talks about an interactive programming environment for the R statistical programming language called swirl. I have decided to download this when I am back in my Hotel room tonight (I am working in Prescott, AZ this week) and report what I find. It is amazing how important statistics has become in the work I do in machine vision. The last four jobs (including this one) is loaded with it. I just sent a set of data off to members of our team in Australia and China because we do not have anyone here yet who can handle it. I suspect, I will be hiring a data science consultant to pick up some small projects, soon, but believe we will be hiring a fulltime data scientist within two or three years just to consume the data we produce in my group. I need to start studying R and Weka to get enough knowledge to hire well. I would like to learn SAS and JMP, too. Kelly says JMP is not so expensive, so we might start with that. Fortunately, I have some data scientist friends who are capable of helping me.