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“Professor Wickham built a very unique and insightful application (using the R statistical programming language) which allowed users to look at sections of the course and compare John and Chad across a number of different variables. R is a powerful language that we use at EMC for predictive an...
and a passport system allowing race-based restriction was introduced. Mongia concludes, ‘control over mobility does not occurafterthe formation of the nation-state … the very development of the nation-state occurred, in part, to control
Data Analysis and Graphics Using R: An Example-Based Approachby John Maindonald and John Braun – a comprehensive introduction to both statistical analysis that is most suitable for self-learning. It is also a very handsome book. If you are a book person, this is the one to own. Data Ana...
With each new Android release, we hear about plenty of promising-sounding new features — but sometimes, things don't pan out exactly as expected.
Fifty years ago, a short book appeared under the intriguing title The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Its author, Thomas Kuhn (1922–1996), had begun his academic life as a physicist but had migrated to the history and philosophy of science. His main argument in the book — his second...
This short book will attempt to set a complicated, multifaceted crisis within the longer term context of a continent already disturbed by the French Revolution and wars from 1789 to 1815 and the liberal and democratic aspirations established then. The pace of social change appeared to be ...
Over a very short span of time, the new theory became the reference model into which geological phenomena on the continents were to be integrated, and, very soon, the inevitable prism through which they had to be presented. The hypothesis of conti- nental drift had undergone a very ...
The terms “paradigm” and “paradigm shift” originated in “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” by Thomas Kuhn. A par
In very broad terms, each surge goes through two periods of a very different nature, each lasting about three decades. As shown in Figure 4.1, the first half can be termed the installation period. It is the time when the new technologies irrupt in a maturing economy and advance like a bu...