Publications by Derek Jones
Beta release of data analysis chapters: Evidence-based software engineering
When I started my evidence-based software engineering book, nobody had written a data analysis book for software developers, so I had to write one (in fact, a book on this topic has still to be written). When I say “I had to write one”, what I mean is that the 200 pages in the second half of my evidence-based software engineering book contai...
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beta: Evidence-based Software Engineering – book
My book, Evidence-based software engineering: based on the publicly available data is now out on beta release (pdf, and code+data). The plan is for a three-month review, with the final version available in the shops in time for Christmas (I plan to get a few hundred printed, and made available on Amazon). The next few months will be spent respon...
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beta: Evidence-based Software Engineering – book
My book, Evidence-based software engineering: based on the publicly available data is now out on beta release (pdf, and code+data). The plan is for a three-month review, with the final version available in the shops in time for Christmas (I plan to get a few hundred printed, and made available on Amazon). The next few months will be spent respon...
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Evidence-based software engineering: book released
My book, Evidence-based software engineering, is now available; the pdf can be downloaded here, here and here, plus all the code+data. Report any issues here. I’m investigating the possibility of a printed version. Mobile friendly pdf (layout shaky in places). The original goals of the book, from 10-years ago, have been met, i.e., discuss wh...
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Evidence-based software engineering: book released
My book, Evidence-based software engineering, is now available; the pdf can be downloaded here, here and here, plus all the code+data. Report any issues here. I’m investigating the possibility of a printed version. The original goals of the book, from 10-years ago, have been met, i.e., discuss what is currently known about software engineerin...
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Where are the industrial strength R compilers?
Why don’t compiler projects for the R language make it into production use? The few that have been written have remained individual experimental products, e.g., RLLVMCompile. Most popular languages attract many compiler implementations. I’m not saying that any of these implementations have more than a handful of users, that they implement t...
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Where are the industrial strength R compilers?
Why don’t compiler projects for the R language make it into production use? The few that have been written have remained individual experimental products, e.g., RLLVMCompile. Most popular languages attract many compiler implementations. I’m not saying that any of these implementations have more than a handful of users, that they implement t...
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Testing rounded data for a circular uniform distribution
Circular statistics deals with analysis of measurements made using a circular scale, e.g., minutes past the hour, days of the week. Wikipedia uses the term directional statistics, the traditional use being measurements of angles, e.g., wind direction. Package support for circular statistics is rather thin on the ground. R’s circular package i...
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Testing rounded data for a circular uniform distribution
Circular statistics deals with analysis of measurements made using a circular scale, e.g., minutes past the hour, days of the week. Wikipedia uses the term directional statistics, the traditional use being measurements of angles, e.g., wind direction. Package support for circular statistics is rather thin on the ground. R’s circular package i...
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