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I’m not at all religious, but…

By Ananda | Published: June 26, 2011

… here is a goddess that I am happy to worship…

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On the trucks around town…

By Ananda | Published: June 15, 2011
We two, ours one

Anyone who has spent some time in India is sure to have noticed the slogans painted on the back of trucks, autos, and other vehicles advising “we two, ours one”. This is part of India’s “family planning” efforts–efforts which have had a pretty bumpy history that included a forced sterilization program. Originally, the slogans were [...]

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Stratified Random Sampling in R–A Function in Progress

By Ananda | Published: May 15, 2011

IMPORTANT: This is here mostly to remind me of how I solved my problem. You should read Stratified random sampling in R from a data frame if you really want to use this function. I know that sampling is quite complex, and I will admit that I know very little about its complexities. Fortunately, software [...]

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Sounds interesting. Is that a regular expression?

By Ananda | Published: March 7, 2011

I’ve been meaning to learn how to use regular expressions for quite some time now, but just never seemed to get around to doing so. The other night, I decided to take a stab at them though, and over the past few days, I’ve sort of managed to learn a few tricks. Some of these [...]

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Effective Communication?

By Ananda | Published: February 12, 2011

When people begin the study of communication, their attitudes vary anywhere from “I think this would be a very important class: it is important to understand the communication process if I want to improve the effectiveness of my communication,” to “What a waste of time. I’ve been communicating all my life. Do I really need [...]

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Spectrum: An exploration into open-source publishing

By Ananda | Published: October 3, 2010

Yesterday, at DHAN Foundation’s “Foundation Day” celebration, the students from PDM 11 of the Tata-Dhan Academy and others were able to have–after a really long break–a new issue of Spectrum: Colours of Development in their hands to look at (and hopefully read). Spectrum is the student newsletter of the Academy; students contribute articles, solicit articles [...]

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The new sample size calculator for R (already)

By Ananda | Published: September 10, 2010

aka “Maybe I shouldn’t post so quickly” Just hours ago, I posted my first set of functions for R to determine the sample size for a known population. Then, I had to update that post to reflect my newfound knowledge, and now, I thought I would update again, so that the best functions I came [...]

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A sample size calculator function for R

By Ananda | Published: September 10, 2010

IMPORTANT: This is here mostly to remind me of how I solved my problem. You should read The new sample size calculator for R (already) if you really want to use this function. In the research class at the Tata-Dhan Academy, students are currently getting into sampling, so I thought I would introduce them to [...]

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Using the reshape package in R for pivot-table-like functionality

By Ananda | Published: August 8, 2010

A little more than a week ago, I wrote about creating pivot tables in Microsoft Excel and OpenOffice.org. I also mentioned that I would explain how to do similar calculations by using R. This post will explain how to achieve similar results in R by using the reshape package. I had initially started experimenting with [...]

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Sometimes, I wish I could turn my editing eyes off

By Ananda | Published: August 1, 2010

… but if I did, then I would probably miss out on some of the fun that Indian English has to offer.

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