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John Braun and Duncan Murdoch wrote A First Course in Statistical Programming with R in 2005 or so, and the graphics chapter concentrated on two-dimensional base graphics. This year they released a second edition and discuss other graphics systems. They mention rgl, a package for interactive 3D graphics, but don’t go into any detail (it’s hard to […]
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Tarun Kumar Roy discusses how 'Statistical Survey Design and Evaluating Impact' addresses the two fundamental statistical designs, sample survey and experimental or evaluation designs.
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Although the results of the US presidential election took many by surprise, Twitter analysis would have indicated that Donald Trump was winning the social media war. 'Twitter: A Digital Socioscope' provides an in-depth view of latest research dealing with the biases, misinformation, and state-of-the-art electoral forecasting.
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Emergency situations force us to take critical decisions in a very short time. Often, the first place people turn to for information is social media. A combination of human and machine intelligence can help make sense of the immense amount of data that comes from these widely varied perspectives and posts.
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Celebrate National Poetry Month with Cambridge University Press! In this blog post editor Walter Kalaidjian discusses The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry.
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Do all animals have episodic memory? Scott D. Slotnick author of Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory discusses episodic memory in mammals.
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Moshe Israelashvili & John L. Romano, editors of The Cambridge Handbook of International Prevention Science, introduce their recent title.
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Kenneth Armstrong is Professor of European Law at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Centre for European Legal Studies. His new book is Brexit Time In this exclusive article for 1584, he explains how Brexit is shaped by time: and now that the formal process for withdrawal from the EU has begun, he examines how this process is unfolding and its possible implications.
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