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• Commiting to a Fitness Challenge and Then Figuring Out if it is Achievable

  2019/02/12

• Spatial analysis of votes in Toronto

  2018/12/04

• Fixing a hack finds a better solution

  2018/09/02

• Elections Ontario official results

  2017/11/19

• Finance fixed their data and broke my case study

  2017/11/05

• A workflow for leaving the office

  2017/10/01

• Charity donations by province

  2017/08/31

• TTC delay data and Friday the 13th

  2017/06/21

• Successful AxePC 2016 event

  2016/11/06

• Axe PC 2016

  2016/10/17

• About

  2016/05/05

• Evaluation of our Federal Election predictions

  2015/10/20

• Final riding-level predictions

  2015/10/16

• Preliminary results for the Federal Election

  2015/09/25

• Applying the β distribution to voter characteristics

  2015/04/24

• Investigating voter turnout

  2015/01/27

• Comparing our predictions to the actual votes for the Toronto mayoral election

  2015/01/23

• Our final predictions for the Mayoral race

  2014/10/25

• End of September predictions

  2014/09/30

• Toronto Election data

  2014/09/16

• Predicting the 2014 Toronto mayoral race

  2014/09/12

• PsephoAnalytics

  2014/09/10

• Minister of Opportunity Costs

  2010/12/06

• Risk

  2010/12/02

• Ford

  2010/10/27

• Long-form census

  2010/10/07

• Principles

  2010/07/21

• Bargain Basement Citizenship

  2010/07/21

• Statisticians go wild

  2010/07/17

• Rifkin on progress

  2010/07/17

• In the matter of Omar Khadr, shame on us

  2010/07/15

• Beware those Black Swans

  2010/07/15

• Eco fees

  2010/07/10

• Census change latest move in PM's dumbing down of Canada

  2010/07/08

• The true costs of "truth in sentencing"

  2010/06/30

• The Anosognosic's Dilemma

  2010/06/21

• The price we pay for a government of fear

  2010/06/08

• Public service vs. Academics

  2010/06/03

• Peter Gabriel & Bon Iver

  2010/03/30

• How I fell in love with a fish

  2010/03/21

• Mr. Dithers

  2010/03/19

• Low-level Turbulence

  2010/03/19

• Bathroom breaks could wait during gold-medal match

  2010/03/09

• Input, output: We need a public-sector Olympics

  2010/03/08

• Your square-jawed hero is, in fact, the scientist

  2010/02/10

• Why Climate Science Is On Trial

  2010/02/08

• Climate strategy on a road to nowhere

  2010/02/08

• Future Shock

  2010/01/31

• New World computers

  2010/01/29

• Slime moulds

  2010/01/26

• Tories Plunge in the polls

  2010/01/25

• Roll Over, Charles Darwin!

  2010/01/24

• The Green Façade

  2010/01/22

• From brutal brooding to retrofit-chic

  2010/01/21

• There was a time when the Liberals stood for something

  2010/01/20

• Kenan Malik

  2010/01/20

• English language grammar

  2010/01/10

• To Bee or Not to Bee

  2010/01/09

• Magical thinking

  2009/12/29

• Irresponsibility

  2009/12/29

• International human rights

  2009/12/29

• Green buildings at SAS

  2009/12/29

• Ten years that shook, rattled, rolled and helped repair the world

  2009/12/27

• Scepticism's limits

  2009/12/16

• When Bureaucrats (are) Attack(ed

  2009/12/01

• Speaking out, despite the cost

  2009/11/24

• Why honeybees are falling through the cracks

  2009/11/20

• The new flu symptom for parents: Who stays home?

  2009/11/18

• The Canadian broadcasting system crisis

  2009/11/18

• Lessons from the crisis: Re-educate the geeks

  2009/11/18

• Let's skip stereotypes and give a guy a break

  2009/11/16

• How an accident caused the Berlin Wall to come down

  2009/11/04

• The Importance of Being Hated

  2009/11/02

• Fear's old struggle with vaccination

  2009/11/01

• Weeding out the queue

  2009/10/31

• David Allen on setting priorities

  2009/10/29

• Economic growth, the universe, and the meaning of life

  2009/10/25

• Emacs Installation on Windows XP

  2009/10/07

• Canadian winner bemoans bureaucracy

  2009/10/07

• Instapaper Pro 2.0 released!

  2009/06/24

• Canada LEED projects

  2009/06/21

• Every day is "science day"

  2009/06/03

• World-beating bureaucrats

  2009/05/27

• Math and the City

  2009/05/26

• Mama Earth Organics

  2009/05/22

• High-Minded Hypocrisy

  2009/03/17

• Death Sentences Review

  2009/02/25

• Omnivore

  2009/02/23

• DabbleDB

  2009/02/19

• Getting shovels into the ground and money into more brains

  2009/02/18

• The Anti-Mac User Interface

  2009/02/17

• Darwinian answers to social questions

  2009/01/15

• Instapaper Review

  2009/01/05

• Election 2008

  2008/10/14

• How Our Culture Keeps Students Out of Science

  2008/08/06

• Patrick Watson

  2008/07/27

• An excellent and inspiring talk on passion and teaching

  2008/07/20

• Stuck in the middle

  2007/06/23

• Creationists and their old tricks

  2007/03/30

• Stikkit from the command line

  2007/03/21

• Yahoo Pipes and the Globe and Mail

  2007/03/16

• Stikkit Todos in GMail

  2007/03/07

• Stikkit-- Out with the mental clutter

  2007/01/31

• Mac vs. PC Remotes

  2007/01/07

• Text processing with Unix

  2006/11/30

• Plantae's continued development

  2006/11/30

• Images from the Hinode spacecraft

  2006/11/03

• Edward Burtynsky

  2006/11/02

• Stern Review on the economics of climate change

  2006/10/31

• Climate change and public relations

  2006/10/08

• Principles of Technology Adoption

  2006/09/19

• Hans Rosling at TED

  2006/09/19

• Resumes & Spam Filters

  2006/09/11

• Information Consulting Services

  2006/07/25

• The Canary Project - Global Warming Documented in Photos

  2006/07/12

• RSiteSearch

  2006/07/11

• R module for ConTeXt

  2006/07/11

• CBC Radio 3

  2006/07/07

• expand-grid

  2006/07/06

• Burning your money

  2006/06/07

• Heart of the Matter

  2006/05/24

• Plantae resurrected

  2006/05/23

• Competitive Enterprise Institute

  2006/05/22

• Google Importer

  2006/05/16

• Google calendar

  2006/04/20

• An Inconvenient Truth

  2006/04/14

• Analysis of Count Data

  2006/04/13

• Getting Evolution Up to Speed

  2006/04/10

• SSHRC and the theory of evolution

  2006/04/09

• Deschooling, Democratic Education, and Social Change

  2006/04/07

• Desktop Manager

  2006/04/04

• Managing project files

  2006/03/27

• Sun grid

  2006/03/24

• Automator, Transmit, and Backup

  2006/03/19

• Remote data analysis

  2006/03/15

• Rails, sqlite3, and id=0

  2006/02/24

• The Globe and Mail - Constitutional reform

  2006/01/16

• Taxonomy release

  2006/01/16

• plantae foundations

  2006/01/15

• The effect of protandry on siring success in Chamerion angustifolium (Onagraceae) with different inflorescence sizes

  2006/01/04

• The consequences of clone size for paternal and maternal success in domestic apple (Malus x domestica)

  2006/01/04

• Sexual interference within flowers of Chamerion angustifolium

  2006/01/04

• Responses to selection on male-phase duration in Chamerion angustifolium

  2006/01/04

• Pollen and ovule fates and reproductive performance by flowering plants

  2006/01/04

• Plant breeding systems and pollen dispersal

  2006/01/04

• Effect of population size on the mating system in a self-compatible, autogamous plant, Aquilegia canadensis (Ranunculaceae)

  2006/01/04

• Correlated evolution of dichogamy and self-incompatibility-- a phylogenetic perspective

  2006/01/04

• Beyond floricentrism-- the pollination function of inflorescences

  2006/01/04

• Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Sierra Club Speech

  2005/12/24

• Idealized, Inaccurate but Successful - A Pragmatic Approach to Evaluating Models

  2005/12/24

• Evolutionary Theory

  2005/12/07

• Breakpoint regression

  2005/12/07

• Managing Email

  2005/12/02

• iTunes remote control

  2005/10/28

• Combining pdf files

  2005/10/23

• Evolutionary ecology diagram

  2005/10/13

• Plantae

  2005/10/10

• Intelligent design in the classroom

  2005/09/28

• The Onion on Intelligent Falling theory

  2005/08/19

• Trade-offs between clonal & sexual reproduction

  2005/08/13

• Temporal separation of gender

  2005/08/13

• Population size

  2005/08/13

• Inflorescence architecture

  2005/08/13

• Vector assignment in R

  2005/06/13

• Image uploads

  2005/04/14

• Podcasting & the CBC

  2005/03/14

• Quirks and Quarks

  2005/01/29

• Astronomy pictures on the Desktop

  2005/01/23

• Heritability of male-phase duration

  2005/01/01

• Climate change and public relations

  2004/12/11

• Google Scholar

  2004/11/18

• JSTOR import script

  2004/11/07

• Ecology Retreat, University of Calgary

  2004/10/20

• The Crusade Against Evolution

  2004/09/24

• Pollinator networks

  2004/09/12

• Society for the Study of Evolution meetings 2004

  2004/06/03

• Dynamic State Variable Models in Ecology

  2004/04/14

• Journal abbreviations

  2004/04/06

• Seed size

  2004/04/04

• Confronting models with data

  2004/04/01

• Character assignments in phylogenetic analyses

  2004/01/09

• Reference management

  2003/11/23

• Seed set of dichogamous plants

  2003/11/19

• Ecology Division Seminar Series, University of Calgary

  2003/11/12

• Siring success of dichogamous plants

  2003/09/04

• Pollen deposition after single bee visits in the field

  2003/09/04

• Pollen removal after single bee visits in the field

  2003/09/03

• Floral Integration

  2003/07/11

• Society for the Study of Evolution meetings 2003

  2003/06/03