Programming Throwdown, Episode 47, Ruby, take it away, Jason.

Hey, everybody. We have a cool episode coming up on Ruby

we also have a lot of interesting questions and feedback and a lot of mail actually

the mail has gone up by what maybe a factor of like five or something? A lot.

Yeah, factor of a lot. There's a lot of new people out here.

We don't know where you came from, but welcome.

Actually, you know, okay, yeah, if you guys just shoot us a email or post on Facebook or Gplus, tell us where you found.

If you're new to the show, let us know where you came from.

Because we got a ton of people in the show very recently at least based on the emails and our very loose hand-wavy statistics

and so yeah let us know we're curious so cool so one of the emails we got is from Yarosla Pikorski.

Piskorsky, sorry if I messed that up. So he's, I don't know if he's a statistician, but he knows a lot more about statistics than Patrick and I do combined. And he added a lot of information on R.

One of the things about R that we didn't know is that the R, the syntax in R,

and for people who don't know R was the language we covered last month.

Episode 46.

That's right.

So the syntax of R is almost identical to the syntax in statistics textbooks.

So you can open up a statistics textbook, take some equations from that, you know, and almost

type them verbatim in R, which is pretty cool. Also, you know, he mentions a lot of things R does.

There's, you know, a lot of the things there's overlap there with Matlab and with, you know,

Numpai and SciPy.

But they're worth mentioning, they're interesting.

And so definitely go to programming throwdown.com

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