It has been too long!

Wow, where did the time go? ...Don't answer that.  I meant to do so much more with my time. I don't know if any body else has suffered the recent flu or if they have a fridge that wants them to lose weight without all the hard work, but I sure have!  Ugh, there were two days (a night and a morning) where it felt like I lost 10 lbs just by going to the bathroom.  (Sadly that did not actually happen.  Back to the Brazilian Butt Lift videos!)

Anywho... I have more projects in the works that I need to do than have to share but thought I should note that I have not abandon the various challenges, there is just a backlog right now.  There have been some attempts at recipes but they have ended disastrously and will not be reported upon.  Needless to say, Fried Rice and Fried Okra have won this battle but it is not over.  This was just my "Rocky I".  I shall not be defeated in "Rocky II."

Plus, there are a bunch of new courses coming up on the Johns Hopkins Coursera page that I am really excited about.  Click on the caption link to learn more about these courses, whose thumbnail course logos belong to Johns Hopkins (I don't mean any copyright infringement, just like to spread the gospel of Fisher, Pearson, Cox, Gauss, Cauchy, Bernoulli, Poisson, Chebychev, Tukey and Gosset (Student's), from the book of Statistics.  Can I get a hallelujah?!).

The Data Scientist's Toolbox

Getting and Cleaning Data

R Programming

Statistical Inference

Exploratory Data Analysis

Regression Models

Developing Data Products

That's right, I like getting my nerd on! (Because apparently a geek is more of a fan of something, whilst a nerd is all about the ideas and the doing, according to this 01 Jul 2013 UK article on settling the Geek v. Nerd debate as researched by Burr Settles.)


....Moving right along; oh look, time to check the mail!  Maybe tomorrow I will take a picture of the cherry blossoms in season right now, what with the afternoons being so pleasant and all.