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I’m a published author! In a book, even!

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Check it out, folks, we’re in a book:

Cover page of the book:

Thanks, I just wanted to sqee a bit.

Wine expertise

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

Thursday morning I got mail at work, which turned out to be an unsolicited book. As I noted on Twitter, I was somewhat confused by this.
OK, wtf? I just got a book on wines (what a coincidence) from a publishing company becoz of my blog. To review I guess. Why?
A book on wines for a […]

The book chapter saga advances a bit more

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Our editor, Dr. Jonathan Foster at the University of Sheffield in the UK, sent us a list of things we needed to do (biographies, index, contact information, etc.) so my Friday last week was spent on that with frequent emails between me and Daniel to get everything in order. This morning, after checking over everything […]

Our book chapter

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Excellent news! The book chapter that I worked on with Daniel Lemire has been accepted. The reviewers asked us to do some minor revisions which seem quite reasonable.
We were both worried about being accepted because the subject of the chapter (basically, why don’t people collaborate on data analysis and is there anything we can do […]

Book on presentations

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

I am always looking for ways to improve my oral presentations. Unfortunately, what with giving a presentation only once a year, I don’t get much practice, so it’s hard to improve myself that way. So I try to glean information from the internet. But scientific presentations have certain particularities that make it difficult to directly […]

Yay to good news!

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Woot to the toot! Our book chapter submission on collaborative data analysis has been accepted! /happydance
We have till March 15 to finish it. So now to finish what we started some time ago.

Submitted

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

The book chapter has been submitted. Now we wait.

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