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Category: Research and Teaching

  • Awang Satyana: Publish or Perish (4)

    To find yourself in a silent room with full of people waiting to hear what you have to say, must be very intriguing. You might want to be at the front row to hear what this guy have to say. You don’t want to miss a thing. And this is his story … (originally posted on…

  • Kuliah atau kerja: choosing a future in academics or practitioner

    Dear friends, I believe that we choose our future. This was my post on my Facebook wall as a comment on one of my friend list. I decided to blog it, because I am sure many face this dilemma after they finish high school. This post is in Bahasa Indonesia. Berikut pendapat saya. Pendidikan pada dasarnya…

  • Awang Satyana: Publish or Perish (3)

    (stack of course material, private collection) Lecturing in a short course is another way to share your knowledge to wider audience with specific needs. I’ve doing this but it’s nothing, really, compared to his list. and here’s his story … (originally posted on Awang Satyana’s Facebook wall, on 26-27th July 2014) ———— MENGAJAR KURSUS Itu barisan…

  • Sketch of The Three Sisters

    Three sisters Blue Mt Sydney In plain black and white using regular V5 Snowman pen View on Path

  • Several more things about data analysis

    Outline Part 1: Data in business 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Data in business: why is it so important 1.2.1 Forecasting: we need to know the future 1.2.2 Decision making: reaction to every action Part 2: Looking for correlation Part 3: How to build a model Part 4: Data scientist Part 1: Data in business Author: Dasapta…

  • Rain water collection system: Blue Mountain National Park 

    Dear friends, I posted another article about rain water harvesting at derwinirawan.wordpress.com. It’s about rain water collection system in Blue Mountain National Park, Australia. Happy reading. Cheers, Erwin 

  • Awang Satyana: Publish or Perish (2)

    (cover of a slide, presented at SD Regina Pacis, 2003, private collection) I am a lecturer, and try to devote my life to that so called profession, but I am still want to be a teacher. Kata orang “bisa jadi pengajar belum tentu bisa jadi guru”. Pak Awang Satyana, in my point of view, has…

  • Roundabout to save water

    “Water is the driver of nature” (Leonardo da Vinci) Dear friends Have you ever been to Blue Mountain Sydney? You must have seen this roundabout. But you may have missed this information. If you did see the roundabout, you may not think that it is actually a water tank down below. It collects rain water…

  • Awang Satyana: Publish or Perish (1)

    (image: a snapshot of a paper by Awang Satyana, private collection)   It’s all about digital foot print. Nowadays scientists are valued from their digital foot print. It’s not real until you make it online. Web crawlers like Google (google.com or scholar.google.com) has their own methodology to identify new scientific entries and add them to their…

  • Do you use any software to teach #statistics?

    (image from: www.statisticsviews.com) This was a question popped by one of my friend at Research Gate. The question then harvests so many responses. So I thought it would be useful if I make a summary out of that. There are arguments that we should teach statistics, not only using manual calculation but also by using software…