Data Analysis Recipes

Chapters from Hogg's non-existent book.

Authors:

(Contributions have come from all of the following.)

• David W. Hogg, New York University
• Jo Bovy, Institute for Advanced Study
• Dan Foreman-Mackey, University of Washington
• Dustin Lang, Princeton University

License:

Copyright 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 the authors. All rights reserved.

If you have interest in using or re-using any of this content, get in touch with Hogg.

Style notes:

• tentative: use "pdf" not "PDF".
• When at the end of the sentence, put the \note after the period, but when at the end of a phrase, put the \note before the comma or parenthesis.
• Make sure the endnotes can be read on their own, outside of context.
• Be careful with the words "error", "uncertainty", "probability", "frequency", "likelihood".
• Use () for function arguments, and [] for grouping/precedence.
• Define macros; remember "1, 2, infinity".
• Put new terms in \emph{}, put only referred-to words in quotation marks.
• Do in-text itemized lists with \textsl{(a)}~ and so on.

Git migration notes:

When I want to import stuff from the old SVN repository, I do the following:

1. I create a new github repository called foo and follow the svn import instructions.

2. I git clone that repository and do things like move the files into a directory structure that won't conflict with the current structure, like:

    cd
    git clone git@github.com:davidwhogg/foo.git
    cd foo
    mkdir straightline
    git add straightline # I think this is maybe needed?
    git mv *.pdf straightline
    # etc
    # . . .
    git commit -a -m "fixed up directory structure"
    git push
   

3. I make a subtree merge or something like that (I am new to all this) like so:

    cd
    cd DataAnalysisRecipes
    git pull # to get up-to-date
    git remote add foo git@github.com:davidwhogg/foo.git
    git fetch foo
    git merge foo/master
    git push
   

4. Then I delete the foo repo from github so as not to confuse myself.