As the girls grew older they didn't relate to the adventures of Monkey and Ferret sisters any more. So I wrote this one with the daring duo as the protagonists. The story was influenced a lot by what I was reading at the time. I am sure the bike that made horse sounds came from... Continue Reading →
Stories for Kids: Adventures of Monkey Girl and Ferret Girl
I have two kids, and since they were born I have been telling them stories about Monkey Girl and Ferret Girl. Over the years, the stories evolved to include myself and our friends and neighbors. After my divorce from their mother, I started writing them in little notebooks. I plan to put some of them... Continue Reading →
Automating Poster Creation with Latex
This semester I will be serving in OU COB Research Colloquium. We organize research presentations in college of business. As part of my duties I was tasked with creating posters. I considered my options and decided that creating new posters every other week was too much work. So I created a tex file that grabs... Continue Reading →
Integrating R Code in Beamer Presentations
I am preparing presentations for the upcoming R workshop. That means I have to find a way to integrate R code and results into my presentations. Now I know there are a number of ways to achieve this, but I like beamer for presentations and R for analysis. Now thanks to Knitr, I can bring... Continue Reading →
Beamer use Tikz to Highlight Certain Parts of Tables
EDIT: I CHANGED THE SERVICE PROVIDER FOR THE BLOG AND THE CODE BLOCK BELOW GOT MESSED UP. ALL SLASHES ARE GONE. BEWARE I did my proposal yesterday and it went well 😀 I used beamer to prepare my slide deck and was very pleased with how easy it was to work with. R already has... Continue Reading →
Academic Profile Pages with Markdown Like Syntax
I use markdown in my analysis reports and for my research log. When I was thinking of putting up a more official looking public profile page, I found myself thinking of using markdown to create my profile page on ASU web site. While Markdown is convenient in generating HTML, it is not really suited for... Continue Reading →
PLM package is pretty decent for traditional econometric models, yet when it comes to datasets I have to deal with everyday it can be pretty inefficient. If only we had a version of within transformation that would work with multiple clustering variables... Actually, we have it in the form of felm package for R from... Continue Reading →
Writing Smell Detector for LaTeX
I have been using Linux as my main system for years. One thing I have always felt the lack of was the Word's grammar checking facilities. Especially when writing in LaTeX, I have often felt the lack of an automated system to catch the most common errors. Thanks to John Horton from MIT, now we... Continue Reading →