Nathan VanHoudnos

Data Scientist and applicable statistician

[Nathan VanHoudnos @nathanvan]

@BananyasSplit I have your wallet. It was on the steps in front of my house. Want to pick it up?

[Nathan VanHoudnos @nathanvan]

@SouthwestAir my wife and do not drink. Could we get WiFi coupons instead?

[Nathan VanHoudnos @nathanvan]

@AskLyft Consider a specifc airport ETA. Likely that rolling average of past ETAs (same route) would be better. No data science needed.

[Matt Crespi 🇺🇦 (@mattcrespi.bsky.social) @MattCrespi]

As a nation, we need to stop using fake, prepackaged cheese slices, and get back to eating high quality ingredients. #MakeAmericaGrateAgain

[Nathan VanHoudnos @nathanvan]

I would like to have phonetic pronunciations of names standard on resumes and CVs. Perhaps call it a #phoname?

[Nathan VanHoudnos @nathanvan]

parallelsugar: An implementation of mclapply for Windows. http://t.co/7vsNvG1mpP #rstats

[Nathan VanHoudnos @nathanvan]

@kalltuck Great! I look forward to seeing it. I'll send you a quick email.

[Nathan VanHoudnos @nathanvan]

. @kalltuck Awesome program evaluation syllabus: https://t.co/sZlTneOQAS Would you be willing to share the course packet?

[Nathan VanHoudnos @nathanvan]

My most common Latex compilation error is misspelling \lambda.

[Nathan VanHoudnos @nathanvan]

If Jesus is your co-pilot, he is my co-PI. Only by his grace is this grant getting done...

[Nathan VanHoudnos @nathanvan]

In latex, zz^\top is an outer product. This makes me happy.

[Nathan VanHoudnos @nathanvan]

@comcastcares A floor supervisor at the WV call center is filing an advertising discrepancy form on my behalf. Should be resolved soon.

[Nathan VanHoudnos @nathanvan]

Dear Comcast rep: this is the deal that was advertised. Will you honor it?

[Nathan VanHoudnos @nathanvan]

#rstats gurus: Any examples of someone writing an applied stats paper as a vignette inside of a custom R package? #reproducibleresearch

[Nathan VanHoudnos @nathanvan]

@nikolasander Thank you for writing up your markdown workflow on your blog. Very helpful.

[Nathan VanHoudnos @nathanvan]

Introducing `rstanmulticore` a cross-platform #rstats package to run Stan MCMC chains in parallel http://t.co/Qk9bTgGslM

[Doug Melder @DougMelder]

If you feel led to give to Nepal, recommend with @charitywater or @WorldVision / both been there for decades and high functioning.

[Nathan VanHoudnos @nathanvan]

NSF funded a REU (Hi-CLIMB) to send me to Nepal. My earthquake fundraising page: http://t.co/x3AwC57sLT via @DonorDrive

[Nathan VanHoudnos @nathanvan]

The Secret Weapon for Evernote is okay, but it misses the power of a master note: http://t.co/evOGezzzka