I stole that title from the late Bob Talbert, an everyman columnist from the late, or possibly undead, Detroit Free Press. He would use that title whenever he had a…
Roger Kimball is causing a stink, a predictable yet enjoyable stink, by publishing Anthony Daniels's review of an Ayn Rand biography in this month's The New Criterion. There are two…
How many of you are there? According to a mixture of Wordpress and Google Analytics statistics reports, I receive roughly twelve to fifteen hundred hits per day. That's excluding bots…
10 minutes is a shockingly short period of time! Today, some common errors you WILL see when you try to read in data. The code below has many typos. Watch…
I have never been part of a conspiracy before---there was never the opportunity---so you can imagine how excited I am about finally joining one. It's true that, in 1978, I,…
10 minutes is a shockingly short period of time! Go to https://www.wmbriggs.com/book/ and save the advertising.csv file into your myR folder. Make SURE it is saved as a CSV file…
Today's post is at Quirk's, the well known trade journal and marketing research review. If you want to read the article on-line at Quirk's, registration is required, but free. You…
It's hard to think of a historical writer more misunderstood than Thomas Malthus. A week doesn't go by without somebody dropping his name, but only to show how wrong he…