Guilherme V. Rocha's Links

Link sections:

• Journals links
• Technical Blogs
• Data links
• Useful links
• Miscellaneous links

Journals:

• Arxiv Statistics
• Annals of Statistics
• Statistical Science
• SIAM Review
• JASA
• Journal of Machine Learning Research
  

Interesting Technical Blogs:

• Yaroslav Bulatov's BLOG

Data links:

• http://flightaware.com:
  I found this great website where you can track thousands of flights in the United States.
  It is a great source of data if you want to do your own FAA-like statistics.
  I must admit that this was the result of extreme anxiety for getting my new MacBook.
  


• http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/surface/stations.txt:
  This is a the most complete list of stations in airports all over the world I could find.
  It contains coordinates, elevation, ICAO and IATA abbreviations of surface stations located on airports.
  


• http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/hvs/overview.html:
  This site contains current information on the rental and homeowner vacancy rates, and characteristics of units available for occupancy in the United States.
  This can come in handy whenever you have to move and/or buy a new house :p
  


• http://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/:
  AERONET (AErosol RObotic NETwork) is a federation of ground-based remote sensing aerosol networks established by NASA and LOA-PHOTONS (CNRS) and is greatly expanded by collaborators from national agencies, institutes, universities, individual scientists, and partners. The program provides a long-term, continuous and readily accessible public domain database of aerosol optical, mircrophysical and radiative properties for aerosol research and characterization.
  

Useful links:

• Bundles for TextMate: http://netcetera.org/cgi-bin/tmbundles.cgi:
• CRAN: http://cran.r-project.org/
• R-Wiki: http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php
• Ways of squeezing text in LaTeX: http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/squeeze.html

Miscellaneous:

• http://800notes.com/:
  Reports of spam calls on cell phones: I have been getting repeated calls from (925) and (866) are codes that hung up after a while.
  Apparently we now get spammed on our phones too (as if spam mail was not bad enough). This site contains listings of phone numbers that seem to be from spammers.
  I still don't know what to do to get rid of them (other than adding them to my ignore list) but as knowledge is usually the first step in the cure, this site can be useful.
  


• http://www.grc.com/tip/codfaq1.htm:
  I have been doing some research on media types for backing up my data and ran into this "Click of Death" thing.
  Click of Death (COD) seems to be a popular name for a problem on Zip and Jaz removable media mass storage systems.
  I don't know how prevalent the problem is, whether it has been taken good care of and how reliable this source is, but if you hear about (as I did) and want to know more about the "click of death", this link does contain some background material.
  


• http://overstock.berkeley.edu:
  This is a link to the Cal Overstock and Surplus Den.
  It contains information on purchasing used material from UC Berkeley and how to ``donate'' and/or recycle your electronic waste.
  


• http://diversitydata.sph.harvard.edu/index.jsp:
  Diversitydata.org allows visitors to explore how metropolitan areas throughout the U.S. perform on a diverse range of social measures that comprise a well-rounded life experience.