bigmemory - don't drown in the data

bigmemory is an R package that "supports the creation, storage, access, and manipulation of massive matrices". Don't drown in the data is a paper by John W. Emerson and Michael J. Kane in the recent issue of Significance (unfortunately the paper is not open access). The authors describes the basic ideas behind bigmemory and why they started the project.

Statistics and Sandel's Justice

I came across a great article - Are first-borns more likely to attend Harvard? - in the recent issue of Significance. Antony Millner and Raphael Calel investigates Michael J. Sandel’s famous “experiment” in the light of statistics.