The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

Using the Freedman-Diaconis Rule to determine optimal histogram bin width

How to change Cygwin’s default path prefix temporarily or permanently

An illustrative example of RSA encryption and decryption using small primes

Obtaining coordinates, elevation, distance and directions using the Google Maps API

Assessing goodness of fit using scipy and matplotlib

Using the Haversine formula to compute geographic distances with examples

Leveraging Pandas to read and write tables in an Oracle database

Updating sample mean and variance to account for new observations without full recalculation

Leveraging zero-width assertions in regular expression patterns

Using configparser and argparse to develop command line applications in Python

Visualizing the fit of parametric distributions to empirical loss data using ggplot2

Introduction to Geoprocessing with mpl_toolkits.basemap utility

Writing functions that accept a variable number of parameters demonstrated using the openxlsx package

A demonstration of data aggregation using the data.table library

Improving the performance of CPU-bound routines in R programs with Rcpp

Implementing user-defined binary operators in R

An Investigation of the Complete and Incomplete Beta Functions with use cases in Statistical Modeling

Various approaches to compiling loss reserving triangles in R

Demonstration of interprocess communication using R’s socket interface

A walkthrough of the k-means clustering algorithm

Sharing data between processes with Python’s multiprocessing library

Examination of the LOESS method with implementation in Python

Working with data.table’s special symbols

Introduction to the secure copy utility

Connecting to a virtually hosted Ubuntu using ssh