Is there any thing worse than that you are unable to update a Chinese blog in China? The only choice for me now is to write down the news in this academic blog first.

These days I am in Beijing and enjoying the GREAT R conference. In fact I just wrote down a lot about it in Chinese but I can only appreciate it myself. However, as you know, translating Chinese words to English is really head-aching, and at least Repeating is not an interesting thing to do. Therefore, I just write a new one instead.

New friends. I am really surprised by the broad applications of R, or statistics. At the same time, I meet so many great people and we exchange ideas with each other. As a blogger and economics student myself, I focus more on how to make my presentation attractive than its depth or academic value. Many new ideas open a door for me to realize that how wonderful the world is.

Spirit. Open-source, free and flexible make R distinct. I should admit it does cost me a lot of time to study R. But now I think it worthy that time. At least I can enter the statistical world instead of observing it outside the window.

Cooperate. The integration of R and thousands of statistical methods are really helpful for different areas. I think economics will benefit a lot from the spread of R.

At this moment, I cannot think of anything else. In the following week I’ll revise my beamer for Shanghai’s conference. I’ll make it different, since I don’t want that my audience lost interests in the repeated presentation. If anything new, I’ll update on this blog. See you SH!