Your existence

• Carlos Scheidegger: one thing does not exist unless it is on the web
• if you do not have a homepage yet, you’d better spend this hour building one instead of staying here

Good, bad and ugly about the web

Rankings that make little sense

• http://www.r-bloggers.com/r-bloggers-web-presence/

Why blogging is great for science

• http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/01/nyt-election-oracle-fivethirtyeight-on-why-blogging-is-great-for-science/

1. Statistics Are History Foretold
2. Be Honest About Your Bias
3. Bayesian Nuance
4. No Shame In Changing

• http://andrewgelman.com/2012/09/speaking-frankly/

Cost of a website

• can you guess it?
  • domain name
  • hosting space
• github pages

For you statisticians

• a blog post is much better than a statement “good at R or Bayesian stats” on your CV
• “spend 30 minutes each day in 5 years building a website” vs “20 hours to write a CV in the last semester”
• there are many things that are more suitable for web pages (see my blog for example)
• statistics is awesome! (http://theanalysisofdata.com)
• https://github.com/wlandau
• https://github.com/Dasonk
• https://github.com/killkeeper
• http://niemiconsulting.com/

A one-minute introduction to knitr

• remember ```{r}, ``` and
• `r ` and you are all set
• (optionally) math

Examples

• http://rpubs.com/
• http://tengfei.github.com/ggbio
• http://public.opencpu.org/apps/knitr/
• http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/R/
• http://vis.supstat.com/

Questions?

• https://github.com/yihui
• https://yihui.org