0. Learning Related Links
Digital literacy, Scholarly and Life Hacking
A short article explaining why you need digital know-how. (by Howard Rheingold) excerpted from his book: Net Smart
Video from Howard on his book
Using google scholar and other google resources for education
Prof hacker: from The Chronicle of Higher Education
Email is not a tool for revision
Presentation on attention (from Rheingold)
Video help! (full list here)
I have been accumulating a student/faculty created and curated list of how to videos organized by general topic. Many of these videos were made as part of class assignments in my courses.
Resources for the R project for statistical programming
R is a an open source statistical programming language. It is free, easy to install, but often tricky to get started with. Here are a bunch of resources for help, but see also the video help list, above.
**** Listen Data. R programming tutorials
*R Reference Card: handy list of R functions, all in one two sided page, as a pdf.
*Customizing graphics: some helpful chunks of R code for making visualizations. My favorite is the modification of the pairs function.
Math and stats and programming
***Khan Academy: Another reason to have a Gmail address is that you can use it to sign up to Khan academy.
***MIT computer programming course.
Probability Theory: The Logic of Science: An influential treatise on Bayesian reasoning, with an introduction that ties into artificial intelligence and the nature of science.
