A Gallery of Beamer Slide Templates

As many  of you know, I have started using LaTeX to create both documents and slides.  To this end, I have created a template that includes the basic types of slides that I use in presentation.  For those who want to see what Beamer can do and how technical it is (or is not -- depending on your perspective), I have linked the PDF of the gallery and the .tex file used to create the PDF.  Comparing the two files should make it easy to see how to create Beamer presentations.

A Promising New Option for Putting Data Skills to Use

In the tradition of Doctors Without Borders and similar programs, a team of data analysts are putting together a program to facilitate pro bono -- but socially important -- data analysis work.  More after the break.

Comments now open... I think

I believe I have solved the problem of comments requiring a log in.  Strangely, I had to revert to an old version of the blog management interface to reveal the dialogue box where I could allow open commenting.

Hopefully, people can now comment but we won't see the blog fill up with spam.  Please comment away on new or older posts.

New EM and HS Internship Program at the Bush School

This information just came in about an internship program that may be of interest to emergency management and homeland security students.  Information after the break.

Resources on Getting Started with LaTeX

I ran across a nice set of lecture notes and supplemental material in getting started with LaTeX.  This information was written for a short course in psychology (so some of the material is specific to academic psychology research) and provides an introduction to document production in LaTeX, Beamer (for presentation slides), BibTex (citation management for LaTeX documents) and Sweave (which allows you to run R and produce results within LaTeX documents).

If nothing else, you can see how these various tools are integrated.

Link after the break.