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Month: February 2013


Buffon’s Needle Problem, or How to use Probability to Estimate Pi

Posted on February 16, 2013 Updated on August 20, 2023

I gave a presentation on Buffon’s Needle Problem in a job interview once. Here’s the presentation I gave in PDF… Read more

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Scraping Data off a Web Site

Posted on February 3, 2013 Updated on November 17, 2024

I’m taking the Data Analysis class through Coursera and one of the topics we’ve covered so far is how to… Read more

Posted in Using R     Tags: Virginia Tech     1 Comment     


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