Welcome to Biostat M280 Statistical Computing.

Today

• Introduction and course logistics

Homework (not graded)

• Whether you register for the class or just sit in, please fill out a short survey. It helps me better taylor the course to your background.

• If you have not used Julia before,
  1. Download and install Julia current release v0.5.1 from http://julialang.org/downloads/.
  2. Go over The fast track to Julia. Try the commands in your Julia REPL.
• Reading:
  1. The future of data analysis (Part I), by John Tukey.
  2. 50 years of data sicence, by David Donoho.