Ryan Womack

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Unofficial and informal tips for job applicants

Posted:   |   Tags: applications, blog, interviews, jobs, librarian, librarianship, library jobs, news, ryandata, wordpress

Having been involved in several hiring committees over recent years, it is sometimes a bit frustrating to not be able to give advice to applicants. We cannot do that in individual cases as a matter of HR policy. The decision-making process is confidential. But I hope that by offering some general observations I have made after reviewing many applications, that this might be of help to future seekers. We are, after all, trying to find the person who will provide the best job performance, not perform the best in the application process. Read more...

Mongolian Multivariate Statistics (at the Mongolian University of Life Sciences)

Posted:   |   Tags: blog, Data Science Workshops, Mongolia, Mongolian University of Life Sciences, Multivariate Statistics, R, ryandata, Statistics

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...

PirateBox for Data Literacy

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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!)

Posted:   |   Tags: blog, Data Science Workshops, Mongolia, Mongolian University of Life Sciences, Mongolian University of Science and Technology, National Statistics Office of Mongolia, National University of Mongolia, ryandata

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...