Three-Toed Sloth

36-757, Advanced Data Analysis: Teaching Handouts (Fall 2010)

The students are just starting on their projects, so, rather than say anything of substance, I try to extract the rational kernel from the traditional shell of the practices by which our cultural formation strives to reproduce itself. (Background.)

Syllabus and Orientation to the Course

Or, what the statistics department hopes to achieve by making you spend the academic year analyzing real data.

Some Advice on Process

Or, riding the big hairy research project.

Corrupting the Young; Enigmas of Chance