Hong Kong to Ulaanbaatar flight MIAT Plane I was delighted to be invited to return to Mongolia again for a more in-depth visit to the Mongolian University of Life Sciences [Хөдөө Аж Ахуйн Их Сургууль]. I was honored by the invitation from the Dean of the School of Economics and Business [Эдийн засаг бизнесийн сургууль], B. Baasansukh, and P. Munkhtuya, Chair of the Department of Economic Statistics and Mathematical Modeling, to come and teach a one week Short Course on Applied Multivariate Statistical Methods with R [Олон хэмжээст статистикийн богино хэмжээний сургалт R программ дээр].Read more...
Distributing files via PirateBox PirateBox with pen for scale A PirateBox is a wireless router that has been reconfigured to serve as a local fileserver. The PirateBox project develops software to do this. PirateBox makes it easy to share files with anyone within range of the router, and also supports a local anonymous discussion board for those within range.
I did this for the TP-Link TL-MR3040, a commonly used piece of hardware for PirateBoxes.Read more...
Data Science in Mongolia - Маш их сайн! (very good!)
While it is the subject for another blog post or another blog, Mongol culture has long held my fascination. Thanks to a series of fortunate events, I had the opportunity to bring some of my favorite interests (data, statistics, R, Mongolian) all together to form an unforgettable experience in May 2017. During one week in Ulaanbaatar, I visited three of the oldest, largest, and most important Mongolian universities, as well as the nerve center of Mongolian data, the National Statistics Office.Read more...
Prepping for destination UB, I have decided to travel with a low cost digital devices with a more limited feature set, rather than leaving my electronic life exposed to loss, search, or seizure. To that end, I am taking with me a low-cost Mobal Phone [sic] and a cheap laptop, albeit reconfigured to run a premium operating system, Debian.
The laptop is suitably tagged with the things that keep me running these days, R, Rutgers, and D Music.Read more...