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Republican values of liberté, egalité, fraternité will be all but forgotten when thousands of Parisians recall the most murderous episode in the French capital's postwar history tomorrow. Commemorations are planned for the 50th anniversary of the French-Algerian massacre, when up to 200 peaceful protesters were slaughtered in cold blood around iconic national monuments, including the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame Cathedral.
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Apartment | 1 bedrooms | sleeps 2
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Kitchen, living room, double bedroom with built-in wardrobes and shower room. Modern and recently decorated.
All mod cons – washer/dryer, microwave, hob and built in oven, fridge/freezer, breakfast bar,
Excellent location close to city centre. Close to shops, theatres, swimming pool, universities and public transport.
Wi-fi internet access.
Ideal for professionals and couples.
|Sleeps up to 2, 1 bedrooms
|Nearest beach
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|Corporate bookings, Long term lets (over 1 month), Short breaks (1-4 days)
|Car not necessary
|Nearest travel links
|Nearest airport: Edinburgh, Nearest railway: Edinburgh Waverley
|Family friendly
|Great for children of all ages, Suitable for people with restricted mobility
|No pets allowed, No smoking at this property
Features and Facilities
|Internet access, DVD player
|Central heating, TV, Wi-Fi available
|Kettle, Iron
|Cooker, Microwave, Fridge, Freezer, Washing machine
|1 bedroom, 1 bathrooms of which 1 En suites
|Double beds (1), Dining seats for 2, Lounge seats for 2
|Linen provided
|Shared garden
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Shared garden to rear of property with access from living room.
Garage with electric door access to front of property.
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Linen provided.
Towels can be provided on request.
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Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland after Glasgow and the seventh-most populous in the United Kingdom.
Located in the south-east of Scotland, Edinburgh lies on the east coast of the Central Belt, along the Firth of Forth, near the North Sea. Owing to its spectacular, rugged setting and vast collection of Medieval and Georgian architecture, including numerous stone tenements, it is often considered one of the most picturesque cities in Europe.
Edinburgh is the seat of the Scottish Parliament. The city was one of the major centres of the Enlightenment, led by the University of Edinburgh, earning it the nickname Athens of the North. The Old Town and New Town districts of Edinburgh were listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995. There are over 4,500 listed buildings within the city. In the 2009 mid year population estimates, Edinburgh had a total resident population of 477,660. Edinburgh is well-known for the annual Edinburgh Festival, a collection of official and independent festivals held annually over about four weeks from early August. The number of visitors attracted to Edinburgh for the Festival is roughly equal to the settled population of the city. The most famous of these events are the Edinburgh Fringe (the largest performing arts festival in the world), the Edinburgh International Festival, the Edinburgh Military Tattoo, and the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Other events include the Hogmanay street party (31 December), Burns Night (25 January), St. Andrew's Day (30 November), and the Beltane Fire Festival (30 April).
The city attracts 1 million overseas visitors a year, making it the second most visited tourist destination in the United Kingdom, after London. In a 2009 YouGov poll, Edinburgh was voted the "most desirable city in which to live in the UK". Edinburgh was also rated The Best Place to Live in Channel 4's 2007 4Homes survey.
The beautiful city of Edinburgh is an enchanting place for a spring and summer break. With a wonderful menu of events and festivals including the spring International Science Festival, the Film Festival and the Edinburgh Festivals including the Jazz, Book and Fringe - you'll be spoilt for choice.
Add to this our diverse range of attractions from Dynamic Earth and Edinburgh Castle to the Camera Obscura and Royal Yacht Britannia, you are in for a perfect time. For a capital city, Edinburgh is a surprisingly green place and, even in the heart, you are never far from wide open spaces where you can take in amazing views, have a picnic, or just relax and enjoy the great outdoors long into the summer nights.
The surrounding coast and countryside of East, West and Midlothian is perfect for beach walks in Gullane or Yellowcraigs with walking ideas along the Pentland Hills and country parks like Beecraigs near Linlithgow. The area also has a wealth of ideas for days out or longer stays with things to see and do like the Union Canal, The Scottish Mining Museum and The Scottish Seabird Centre.
Indulge yourself too with the vast array of places to eat with our many eatscotland eateries throughout the area, offering seasonal, locally sourced produce.
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"It was perfect for us!"
We stayed here for 3 nights whilst travelling back and forth to Glasgow for the Commonwealth Games. We therefore didn't spend too much time there but it had a tesco within a 3 min walk and was ab… More
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We were very happy with the property and it's location! A 10 minute walk to princes street (main shopping area), but equal distance to Arthur's seat (to get away from it all!)The flat was ex… More
9 Oct 2013
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195 Pleasance was a great spot between the city and Arthur's seat. The owners were friendly and helpful and the place was very clean, tidy and just right for two people. 5 minutes walk from the R… More
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Well located accommodation for central Edinburgh, 10 minutes walking distance has secure parking which is fantastic. Apartment is very clean and tidy. When we arrived we had everything needed to get o… More
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The property was in a great location just 10minutes walk from the Royal Mile, and had excellent parking facilities. The only downside was the cleanliness, as there was dust on the floor and the bathro… More
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This was a great base for our weekend in edinburgh. We were within easy walking of the city centre. The apartment is very well laid out with everything we needed and more. The owner was very helpful … More
1 Jul 2013
What a lovely little apartment right in the city...the location was perfect, the apartment was compact but perfect for what we required and also had free Wi-Fi access which was great. The fact that it has a garage was a bonus as we parked our car and walked everywhere for the duration of our trip. The one thing that would have been better was if there was toilet roll, washing up liquid etc there and that we didn't have to go out and buy them. However all in all we would recommend this property to any single person or couple visiting Edinburgh if you want everything on your doorstep- this said the apartment bedroom was at the back of the property and extremely quiet to sleep in. We will definitely stay here again next time in Edinburgh.
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We stayed here for 2 nights recently and the apartment is very well kitted out indeed. There is secure parking for a small car and the bedroom is at the back of the property so you get a really good n… More
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It is a brave new year with me in charge of the farm and my life completely. Scary and exciting!
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It is a brave new year with me in charge of the farm and my life completely. Scary and exciting!
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First market
Wednesday was the first market for me in Kalamazoo and the first market for the Co-op too. I think it went well for all of us. I did a lot of talking and educating. I didn't have great sales but I certainly piqued people's interests. I'm really impressed with how much people in Kzoo know about wild food. I knew this was the right place to undertake a wild food business.
Overall, I feel pretty good about it. Of course, maybe that's because it's spring. I've been very busy and am utterly exhausted pretty much all the time. It's not fall harvest season exhaustion when I can't even think straight and only manage to pull myself off the couch because there's tomatoes going bad somewhere. i've planted a lot which is no feat since I haven't been able to scrape together enough money for a seeder. I'm a pretty good hand planter. And finder of fiddleheard ferns!
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I've finally done it! It just posted some items for sale (awaiting approval, which is fairly sure to come) I've been selling some of my products at the Goshen, IN and have received great feedback. One woman had a very exhaustive story about how well my Cramp Cream works. Unfortunately, I can't offer that for sale through the localharvest site yet. I'm out of raspberry leaf and it's certainly not seasonal yet. Her Bath Salts do contain the same ingredients, though and I have plenty of oil left for the salts.
The farm is going a little more slowly, of course. I haven't planted yet, of course. I have started making copious lists of things I do want to plant and have marked out some of the garden places. I'm very excited and scared goofy.
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OPINION: Austria's Big Brother Awards has picked Ubuntu's founder Mark Shuttleworth for the coveted Big Brother Award for their online extension to local searches.
Ubuntu has been criticized by Free Software Foundation, Electronic Frontier Foundation and many other concerned organizations for adding a new feature in Ubuntu's Dash which sends all search queries to Canonical servers located in the UK and the US.
So if I have files on Edward Snowden on my local hard drive and if I want to work on those files in Ubuntu, when I search the term Edward Snowden stories the search term will be sent to Canonical servers and then Canonical will decide what kind of results should be displayed. It's very easy to pin-point the user who ran such query as Canonical also tracks the IP and other info on the user.
This information may be requested by NSA of GCHQ. Since Canonical is based out of UK and runs servers from US – it's under the jurisdiction of both surveillance states. We don't know if these agencies are already getting this data thanks to gag-order where companies are prohibited from disclosing that such an info is requested.
This is different from me searching for Snowden on Google (as many ill-informed Ubuntu fans argue). There is a reason why I keep data offline so that no one – even Google knows about it. My hard drive is my last wall of defense and Canonical has penetrated that wall as well and sniffing this data.
Canonical has set a very dangerous example here as someone like Microsoft which never tried it before is doing now.
What's bad here and raises question is that despite repeated requests Canonical refused to make the tracking option opt-in. The feature is installed and enabled by default so the moment one installs Ubuntu it starts sending info to Canonical servers until the user deliberately disables it.
Free Software advocates have been asking Canonical to disable the feature by default so unsuspecting users don't end up sending info to Canonical's severs. Canonical has refused to do so. Many Ubuntu users have quit Ubuntu due to this feature.
In times like these when spying by these two countries is becoming such a huge concerned there are companies like ownCloud and Kolab Systems which are building technologies to protect users from surveillance states. At the same time it's unfortunate to see that Canonical is going in an opposite direction by building a system which will make it easier for NSA and GCHQ to reach the hard drives of users.
Which now makes Ubuntu the least desired OS of all.
Why can't Canonical see what ownCloud and MyKolab are doing and take a route which protects a user instead of creating easy tunnels for NSA and GCHQ?
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Oct 28, 2013 at 6:47 pm
Just like to point out the surveillance started long before the Tea Party existed. And since the Tea Party has very little true power in Congress they weren't the people that approved it either.
The correct people to blame are the established leaders of both parties since similar operations were done when both parties were in control.
Oct 28, 2013 at 7:04 pm
@jonsmirl:disqus Sorry for confusion. To put things in context, Mr Shuttleworth called the larger open source community (those who opposed MIR) as the Tea Party of Open Source…
Oct 28, 2013 at 7:17 pm
That was a poor analogy he used. The main objection to Mir is the contributor's agreement where you sign over rights to Canonical which lets them resell your work under closed licenses. Of course Intel, Redhat, etc were newer going to sign that hence they nixed the Mir code.
Oct 28, 2013 at 8:01 pm
Was Canonical not aware that it won't get support from all these vendors? If not then they are too naive to be in the field. If they did know yet went ahead with it then the deliberately did it then what they wanted to achieve – create rift within the free software community?
Oct 28, 2013 at 8:26 pm
There were totally aware of what they are doing. All of this is centered around Canonical selling 'Ubuntu Phone OS".
Oct 30, 2013 at 1:48 pm
That's not what the main oobjection is about, and your statement about the CLA is not accurate at all, to say the least.
Nov 14, 2013 at 11:01 pm
The philosophy of open source is rooted in communism so for Mr. Shuttleworth to call the open source community as the Tea Party of Open Source really is an oxymoron.
Oct 28, 2013 at 10:09 pm
This is silly It's working under the pretence that people are to stup!d to figure out that web results mean a web search was preformed. Its also very easy to deactivate.
Oct 28, 2013 at 11:29 pm
One correction: It's Electronic Frontier Foundation, not Electronic Frontier Front. Other than that, excellent article, Swapnil!
Oct 29, 2013 at 11:31 am
So Windows leaking your information all over the Internet and all those ADS in Windows 8 with no way to turn any of it off wasn't enough for the award I guess. I nominate Austria for the Ignorance Award.
Linux is Open Source people, if you don't like something, fix it yourself. Good luck trying that with dirty Windows.
Oct 31, 2013 at 4:16 am
How do you fix something where development is controlled by a company. People are requesting to fix it by disabling the tracking feature. If they don't do it then another fix is by telling people to switch to something safer.
Nov 15, 2013 at 1:05 pm
Still love Ubuntu but your right in some ways make your point know no response direct people eslwhere I respect that.
Oct 29, 2013 at 1:04 pm
What Ubuntu did was unprecedented I don't need to have all the files on my hard drive scanned by someone so they can offer better search results that's is absurd. My suspension tells me that there is more to it then trying to offer better search results. I guess censoring the web is not enough for big brother they also wants to censor what is on our hard drives too using file dna software. Now I know why Ubuntu is the official OS of China where Internet control is considered more extensive and more advanced than in any other country in the world. The governmental authorities not only block website content but also monitor the Internet access of individuals and now thanks to Ubuntu they also monitor your harddrive content. All you anti-corruption journalist of China brace yourself here comes the hard drive police
Nov 6, 2013 at 12:37 pm
Most computers in this world use Microsoft Windows. Everyone who uses Windows has a virus scanner which scans everything on their hard drive… the idea of the cloud infiltrating your HD is not new. I don't use Ubuntu with Unity on any computer, I have Xubuntu on one, openSUSE on others and finally Arch and Trisquel. Protecting your data is a personal responsibility which requires alertness and not gullability. Trust people, but no one absolutely.
Nov 15, 2013 at 1:02 pm
These people should be more upset about thier respective governments first off, pretty sure there is no malicious intent on canonical's part. Over time smart scopes are supposed to replace the software center (which already does track your searches Ip ect) Turn the option off … And yeah I wouldn't use Ubuntu klyn tbh
Oct 30, 2013 at 1:11 pm
"Which now makes Ubuntu the least desired OS of all."
So a single feature which can be disabled easily enough is enough to declare the OS the "least desired OS of all"? The author clearly has an axe to grind and can't be taken seriously.
Nov 5, 2013 at 9:28 pm
Please go tell that to FSF, EFF and many other people who have distanced themselves from Ubuntu. You are prolly not going to take them seriously a well? And when did defending the privacy of users became a non-serious issue?
Nov 15, 2013 at 12:56 pm
Very respectable people and opinions privacy is important. However to say "Ubuntu is the least desired is of them all" is an untrue statement. As for the defending the privacy of users defending them from what? if someone is repeatedly searching for Snowden and how to join the taliban and doesn't turn off smartscopes he is a fool. (I'm in Canada so I guess I'm notas well informed if iI'm missing something everything is more relaxed up here)
Nov 1, 2013 at 6:36 am
Thanks God there are lots of other Linux distributions. Recommend Debian and Mint. The latter is especially good for newbies.
Nov 4, 2013 at 6:27 pm
They are ALL haters!!
Anyone who is against Ubuntu and its glorious greatness is a pedophile.
Only pedophiles dont want to see Ubuntu succeed.
When you hear someone criticize Ubuntu next time, ask him bluntly, "Have you ever molested kids before?"
Nov 5, 2013 at 9:03 pm
Have you ever molested a child before?


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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Jose Quintana had a wild outing against the Los Angeles Angels, getting roughed up for four runs in the first inning and then being called for a balk that led to White Sox manager Robin Ventura's ejection.
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Chicago's fourth straight loss, 4-2 on Saturday night, cut its AL Central lead to a half-game over Detroit.
Quintana (6-5) gave up four runs and six hits in five innings, struck out three and walked five. The Angels did all their damage in the first.
"It was definitely a tough inning, and my mindset was just to get through it and work on what I normally do to get guys out," he said through a translator. "I don't put any pressure on myself. I just tried to keep the game close so that our team had a chance to win. I try to approach every lineup the same way, but the Angels are definitely a good offensive team, and I had that in mind."
Ventura was tossed in the fourth by first base umpire Ed Hickox with the White Sox trailing 4-1. The Angels had runners at the corners with none out when Quintana made an attempted pickoff throw to first baseman Paul Konerko, who was playing way off the bag against the right-handed hitting Mike Trout. Quintana led Konerko to the bag with his throw, and was called for his second balk of the season.
"I don't even know exactly how that went about because it was a designed play, so I was a little surprised that the balk was called," Quintana said. "I still don't understand it. I would have to look at the video. But it's a play that we have. It's not one that we've tried all the time, but we definitely practiced it in spring training."
Hickox told a pool reporter that Quintana didn't throw directly to first base, but 8 to 10 feet toward second baseman Gordon Beckham.
"Konerko was not breaking until after the pitcher threw the ball and then he was just trying to catch the ball. So in my judgment, there was no attempt to retire the runner," the umpire said. "My view and my judgment is that Konerko just went to try to catch the ball from going down the line."
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Games Hospitals Play: Entry Deterrence in Hospital Procedure Markets
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by Joseph Rickert
The Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) get underway this weekend in Boston and Revolution Analytics is again proud to be a sponsor. More than 6,000 statisticians and data scientists from around the world are expected to attend and listen to thousands of presentations. It is true that many talks will be on specialized topics that only statisticians working in particular a field will have the interest and patience to sit through. However, there is evidence that the conference will have something exciting to offer data scientists and statisticians working in industry. Keyword searches yield 79 presentations for Big Data, 29 on Machine Learning, 17 on Data Science, 17 on Data Mining and 19 related to R. There is more than enough here to fill a data scientist's dance card.
Three must-see presentations under the Big Data keyword are: Michael Franklin's presentation on Analyzing Data at Scale with the Berkeley Data Analytics Stack; Hui Jiang et al. on Implementation of Statistical Algorithms in Big Data Platforms and Tim Hesterberg's talk on Simulation-Based Methods in Statistics Education, and Google Tools. Under the Data Science label, Bill Ruh's invited talk Industrial Internet, an Opportunity for Statisticians to Become Data Scientists looks most inviting. There are also quite a few Data Science talks that indicated some soul searching within the academic community as to how the statistics curriculum ought to be changed. See, for example, Michael Rappa's talk on Data Scientists: How Do We Prepare for the Future? and Johanna Hardin's talk: Data Science and Statistics: How Should They Fit into Our Curriculum?
Here is the list of R related presentations:
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If you are going to JSM please come by booth #303 to say hello. You may also find the mobile apps (Apple or Android) that Revolution Analytics is sponsoring useful, and don't forget to fill out the survey for a chance to win an Apple TV.
Finally, I will be the program chair for Session 401, Monte Carlo Methods to be held Tuesday, 8/5/2014, from 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM in room CC-101. If you are interested in simulation be sure to drop in. I have seen the presentations and think they are well worth attending.
I was honoured to be invited earlier this month to the Directions of Statistical Computing meeting in Brixen, Italy. DSC is one of two meetings run by the R Project and unlike the useR! conference, DSC is a much smaller and intimate meeting (DSC 2014 had about 30 participants). If you haven't come across DSC meeting before (quite possible, given that it had last been held in 2009), R Core Group member Martyn Plummer has a nice overview of DSC.
A focus of the first day of the conference was on the performance of R computation engine. The organizers invited representatives from all of the "alternative" R engine implementations, and I believe it marked the first time that developers involved with pqR, Renjin, FastR, and Riposte and TERR were gathered in the same place. (The CXXR project was unfortunately not represented.) Jan Vitek [slides] presented a fascinating comparison of the various projects, based on his interviews with the developers.
It was interesting to see the commonalities in many of the approaches. Three projects, Renjin [slides], FastR [slides] and Riposte [slides] use just-in-time compilation and an optimized bytecode engine. All have achieved impressive performance gains, but have struggled with compatibility (and especially being able to run the 6000+ CRAN packages). But it's clear that their work is having an influence on R itself: Thomas Kalibera [slides] (who previously worked on the FastR project) is working with Luke Tierney and Jan Vitek to improve the performance of R's bytecode interpreter.
Other approaches are also being pursued to improve the performance of the R engine. Luke Tierney [slides] described new improvements in R 3.1 to streamline the reference counting system, and noted that several of the performance improvements implemented by Radford Neal [slides] in pqR have already been incorporated into the R engine. And Helena Kotthaus [slides] has done some very exciting work to profile the performance of the R engine which has already led to performance improvements when virtual memory is being used.
Overall, it was exciting to see collaboration and research into R as a language, and especially the attention from the computer science community to the implementation of R. As Robert Gentleman (co-creator of R and conference lead) noted, R now has a new community beyond statisticians and data scientists: computer scientists. It's exciting to see how R is incorporating learning and innovation from this new community.
For more on DSC 2014, see the reports from Martyn Plummer on Day 1 and Day 2 of the conference. The full program, with links to download the slide presentation, is at the link below.
DSC 2014: Schedule (and slide downloads)
[Reposting to update with the new date for the webinar: Tuesday July 29.]
Just a quick heads-up that I'll be presenting with Neera Talbert (VP Professional Services, Revolution Analytics) in a free webinar on Tuesday, July 29 on Applications in R: Success and Lessons Learned from the Marketplace. I'll describe several R applications from well-known companies (some of which can be seen in the presentation I gave at the China R User Conference), and Neera will present a few case studies of how the Revolution Analytics consulting group has helped companies using R in areas such supply chain analytics, sensor data analysis, and R package validation and certification. Here's the abstract for the webinar:
Applications in R - Success and Lessons Learned from the Marketplace
Adoption of the R language has grown rapidly in the last few years, and is ranked as the number-one data science language in several surveys. This accelerating R adoption curve has been driven by the Big Data revolution, and the fact that so many data scientists — having learned R at university — are actively unlocking the secrets hidden in these new, vast data troves.
In this webinar David Smith, Chief Community Officer, will take a look at the growth of R and the innovative uses of R in business, government and non-profit sectors. Then Neera Talbert, Vice President, Professional Services will take you into the trenches of recent customer deployments and share best practices and pitfalls to avoid in deploying or expanding your own R applications.
You can sign up for the webinar (with live Q&A with me and Neera) at the link below, which will also automatically send a link to the slides and replay when they're available after the live presentation.
Revolution Analytics webinars: Applications in R: Success and Lessons Learned from the Marketplace (10AM PDT, July 29)
by Joseph Rickert
John Chambers opened UseR! 2014 by describing how the R language grew out of early efforts to give statisticians easier access to high quality statistical software. In 1976 computational statistics was a very active field, but most algorithms were compiled as Fortran subroutines. Building models with this software was not a trivial process. First you had to write a main Fortran program to implement the model and call the right subroutines, and then you had to write the job control language code to submit your job and get it executed. When John and his Bell Labs colleagues sat down on that May afternoon to work on what would become the first implementation of the S language they were thinking about how they could make this process easier. The top half John's famous diagram from that afternoon schematically indicates their intention to design a software interface so that one could call an arbitrary Fortran subroutine, ABC, by wrapping it in some simplified calling syntax: XABC( ).
The main idea was to bring the best computational facilities to the people doing the analysis. As John phrased it: "combine serious computational challenges with convenience". In the end, the designers of both S, and its second incarnation, R, did much better than convenience. They built a tool to facilitate "flow". When you are engaged in any mentally challenging work in (including statistical analysis) at a high level of play, you want to be able to stay in the zone and not get knocked out by peripheral tasks that interrupt your thought processes. As engaging and meaningful as it is in its own right, writing code is not doing statistics. One of the big advantages of working with R is that you can do quite a bit of statistics with just a handful of functions and the simplest syntax. R is a tool that helps you keep moving forward. If you want to see something then plot it. If the data in the wrong format, then mutate it.
A second idea that flows from the idea of S as an interface is that S was not intended to be self sufficient. John was explicit that S was designed as an interface to the "best algorithms", not as a "from the ground up programming language". The idea of being able to make use of external computational resources is still compelling. There will always be high-quality stuff that we will want to get at. Moreover, as John elaborated: "unlike 38 years ago there are many possible interfaces to languages, to other computing models and to (specialized) hardware". The challenge is to interface to applications that are "too diverse for one solution to fit them all", and to do this "without loosing the R that works in 'ordinary' circumstances.
John offered three examples of R projects that extend the reach of R to leverage other computing environments.
These examples, chosen to represent each of the three different kinds of interface targets that John called out, also represent projects of different scope and levels of integration. With a total of 226 reverse depends and reverse imports, Rcpp is already a great success. It is likely that ready access to C++ will form a permanent part of the R programmers mindset.
RLLVM is a much more radical and ambitious project that would allow R to be the window to entirely different computing models. As best I understand it, the central idea is to use the R environment as the system interface to "any number of new languages" perhaps languages that have not yet been invented. RLLVM would "Use R syntax for commands to be interpreted in a different interpreter". RLLVM seems to be a powerful idea and a direct generalization of the original XABC() idea.
The RH2O package is an example of providing R users with transparent access to data sets that are too large to fit into memory. It is one of many efforts underway (including those from Revolution Analytics) to integrate Hadoop, Teradata, Spark and other specialized computing platforms within the R environment. Some of these specialized platforms may indeed be longed lived, but it is not likely that all of them will. From the point of view of doing statistics, it is the R interface that is likely to survive and persist, platforms will come and go.
An implication of the willingness of R developers to embrace diversity is that R is likely to always be a work in progress. There will be loose ends, annoying inconsistencies and unimplemented possibilities. I suppose that there are people who will never be comfortable with this state of affairs. It is not unreasonable to prefer a system where there is one best way to do something and where, within the bounds of some pre-established design, there is near perfect consistency. However, the pursuit of uniformity and consistency seems to me to doom designers to be at least one step behind, because it means continually starting over to get things right.
So what does this say about the future of R? John closed his talk by stating that "the best future would be one of variety, not uniformity". I take this to mean that, for the near future anyway, whatever the next big thing is, it is likely that someone will write an R package to talk to it.
Some links regarding S and R History:
UseR! 2014, the R user conference held last week in LA, was the most successful yet. Around 700 R users from around the world converged on the UCLA campus to share their experiences with the R language and to socialize with other data scientists, statisticians and others using R.
The week began with a series of 3-hour tutorials on topics as diverse as data management, visualization, statistics and biostatistics, programming, and interactive applications. (Joe Rickert reported on the tutorials from the field last week.) Unlike in previous years, the tutorial day was included in the registration, which meant that all of the sessions were jam-packed with interested R users.
The remaining 2-and-a-half days were packed with keynotes, contributed talks, and social sessions galore. Given the parallel nature of the tracks I couldn't make it to more than a fraction of the talks, but here are a few of the highlights from my notes:
For more on the conference, the slides from many of the talks and tutorials are available at the useR! website. (If you presented there, please submit your slides via a pull request.) Also check out these reviews of the conference from Daniel Gutierrez at InsideBigData and Phyllis Zimbler Miller.
The next conference, useR! 2015 will be held in Aarlborg, Denmark. I'm looking forward to it already!
The annual worldwide user conference useR! 2014 is underway at UCLA, beginning with a full day of tutorials. This year's useR! conference is a record-breaker with more than 700 attendees, so most of the tutorial sessions have been jam-packed. The tutorials cover a diverse array of R applications: data management, visualization, statistics and biostatistics, programming, and interactive applications. Follow the links below for more details about the packages and methods covered — some authors have already provided slides for their tutorials (and those that haven't probably will soon).
useR! 2014: Tutorials
by Wayne Smith, Ph.D. California State University, Northridge
Editor's note: This post was abstracted from the monthly newsletter of the Southern California Chapter of the ASA.
On May 13th and 14th, the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) the world's largest international pre-college competition, was held at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
I was blessed with the opportunity to represent the American Statistical Association (ASA). As one of approximately 30 statisticians, I helped assist in the judging of the statistics-related elements of numerous prescient and empirical projects presented by high school students from around the world. These students had already won other local and regional science and engineering competitions. We selected first, second, and third place winners, but 16 student teams in total received special recognition and goodie bags filled with software, books, and other items.
The photograph below shows the first place winner, Soham Daga, from New York who used Google Trends to develop a model ot prodict the likelihood of mortgage delinquency. An Interview with Soham can be found here.
I have no doubt that a lasting affinity with statistical professionals and supporting organizations will be a tangible outcome for these motivated, young researchers.
I was energized and transformed by the breadth and depth of the research methods and concomitant inferential analysis applied to address pressing issues in areas as diverse as health care, energy, sustainability, material science, pharmacology, biochemistry, financial economics, and many others. Along with my ASA colleagues, I discussed projects with students as young as 15. As one might expect, many of the High School seniors are attending top research universities in the Fall. I was especially impressed with the rich diversity of students, including groups of students from Qatar, Egypt, Tunisia, Brazil, Japan, Russia, and historically underrepresented areas in the U.S. such as Fresno, CA. Some of the students' work has been ongoing for more than a year, and the students offered background literature (with references!), purposeful hypotheses, detailed analysis and results (occasionally with tool manifests and explanatory code), and integrated conclusions.
Of the 80 or so projects I reviewed, I observed applications of the general linear model; repeated measures; logistic regression; non-parametric measures; classification, feature extraction, and dimensionality reduction; sundry machine learning approaches; and Monte Carlo simulations. I was equally impressed by these students' abilities in fundamental research tasks such as locating and using open source software (e.g., R), understanding and coherently explaining potential I/O- and computational-bounds, finding and interpreting peer-reviewed literature, and seeking out the assistance of relevant industry professionals. Additionally, the students' ebullient entrepreneurial spirit in the design and execution of physical proof-of-concept prototypes and related statistical experiments was especially noteworthy. I came away from each project and each student/team discussion with a new understanding of a thorny issue, a vision for what the solution space and product and process possibilities might be, and perhaps most germane for a College instructor, a renewed calibration for the knowledge, skills, and abilities of a tapestry of young people in the broad areas of mathematical, statistical, and computational sciences. I felt visceral pride in the statistical calling of many of these young finalists, and I know that they will craft much social, intellectual, and economic value for many decades to come.
A side benefit of service at this event was the opportunity to interact with academic and professional colleagues representing a variety of statistical-education interests. In particular, I'd like to thank Madeline Bauer (USC/Keck), Theresa Utlaut (Intel), Jo Hardin (Pomona College), and Olga Korosteleva (CSULB) for their guidance in the judging process. At this event one can interact with professionals from dozens of other professional societies and technology firms as well.
This Intel-sponsored event circulates annually among three U.S. cities. I strongly recommend that individuals with an general interest in statistics and data science volunteer at this event and at local SCASA and OCLBASA events in the future.
Many many thanks to all the statisticians who participated as judges and/or behind the scenes! Thanks to the ASA for the cash prizes and thanks to Chapman Hall/CRC, JMP, Minitab, O'Reilly Media, Revolution Analytics, Sage, Stata, and Taylor & Francis for the donated books, magazines, software and other items.
It was a great honour to be able to present to the China R Users Conference in Beijing last month, and share various applications of R that I've encountered recently. I was really invigorated by the enthusiasm of the many R users at the conference, and everyone was very warm and friendly. Here's a photo I took from the stage, so you can see how many people were there (and you can't even see the balcony in this photo):
(I also took a selfie from the stage, but it's a bit blurry.) I'd especially like to thank the organizers of the conference for inviting me, the volunteers who made me feel so welcome (especially Tong He for being such a great tour guide), and the folks from Revolution Analytics Singapore and SupStat who helped me on my trip. Vivian Zhang from SupStat has a nice recap of the conference, including more photos and some statistics from the conference — check it out!
The useR! 2014 conference promises to be the biggest yet, with more than 500 registrations already. But there's room for plenty more R users! Check out the update from the organizing committer below, and if you haven't already done so, register for the conference at the useR! 2014 website.
We are exactly one month away from the useR! 2014 conference. Time for an update from the organizing committee.
This weekend, registrations passed the 500 mark, which is a new record for useR! according to data collected by Gergely Daróczi. Yet, there is plenty of additional capacity, both for the conference itself, as well as the beautiful on-campus housing at UCLA. We hope to see many more registrations over the upcoming weeks and appreciate all help in spreading the word to friends and colleagues that (should) use R, but might not be actively following the blogs or mailing lists.
To those who are unsure whether to attend, we want to emphasize that useR! is not just for seasoned professionals, but has lots to offer to any R user. Abstracts and (free) tutorials cover a great diversity of topics in both research and industry applications, ranging from introductory to very advanced. The conference provides a great opportunity to learn and mingle with the community, and is interesting for beginner as well as experienced R users.
Tutorials this year are included with the conference ticket and no separate registration is required. All registrants will receive an email survey asking which tutorial they would like to attend, if any. This information will be used for scheduling purposes and to facilitate communication between presenters and participants (e.g. distribution of preparation material).
Finally, we urge international guests to verify that their visa or visa-waiver documents are valid to enter the United States. Citizens from visa-waiver countries that do not already have a US visa, must apply online for an ESTA travel authorization at least 72 hours prior to departure. Once approved, the ESTA is generally valid for a period of 2 years, so now would be a good time to complete this process.
We look forward to seeing all of you in California! Please keep an eye on the conference website, which is continuously updated with most recent news and information as it becomes available.
The official T-shirt for the useR! 2014 R user conference (to be held June 30 - July 3 at UCLA) will be the result of open source contributions and reproducible research.
The organizers of the conference are soliciting designs for the official T-shirt — but there's a catch. The image on the front of the T-shirt will be created entirely with R code, and the R code itself will be displayed on the back.
If you've got an idea for the T-shirt, all you need to do is to submit your R code as a pull request to the official T-shirt Github project. The current design is the letter R filled with the phrases "useR!" "2014" and "Los Angeles." I'm sure there are better designs out there, so if you have one, go ahead and submit a pull request.
Github: user 2014 t-shirt


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Sources close to Karrueche Tran tell TMZ she is unfazed by the recent rash of RiRi rumors. In fact, we're told CB and KT are now actually living together.
As for CB showing up to Rihanna's birthday party, we're told that didn't bother Karrueche either ... because he came home to her that night and whisked her to Miami the next day to celebrate Valentine's Day.
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they offered this young woman a contract of course with lots of $$$$$$$
He can't make it without coattailing on Ri. Stop writing stories about this punk/loser. He has zero cred with me.
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Karrueche needs to gtfo until she gets a battering. chris is not stable in his brain.
Kae is the BIGGEST IDIOT I'VE EVER SEEN. CB is clearly still in love with Rihanna, spends her birthday intimately with her and this dumb broad is ok with it? And correction TMZ, CB went to Miami two days ofter Ri's birtday, and he only went to Miami because he had to perform for the Latin Grammys. So I repeat, Karrueche Tran is ONE BIG IDIOT!!! It wouldn't surprise me if her little tagalong friends sent this cocamamie story to TMZ.
Wonder when her 15 minutes of fame begins? No doubt she'll be suing him for abuse soon enough, unless he kills her first!!! So unfortuneate now adays with all of the help out there for women, that they still think they deserve this kind of treatment.
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When will TMZ start ending Kardashian stories with "Makes you think AWWWWWWWWW....until you remember she was peed on by a third rate rap star." Oh that's right Chris Brown doesn't pay TMZ to post their stories.
Once a woman beater, always a woman beater, and who cares what this idiot does any more?
Ghetto spawn.
I know nothing about this girl, but I know Rihanna is Ghetto. Hope he doesn't go back with her. Also sounds to me like Rihanna is trying her best to wreck any chance of him moving on. She's a narcissistic, BPD GHETTO BITCH...who very likely battered him before he HAD ENOUGH and then raised a hand to her.
She looks like a better punching bag than Ri-Ri anyway. At least she doesn't make more money than him too lol
Those are probably the same words Rhianna said that night before the Grammy's when she stepped in to the car with the woman beater. Of course your were fine with him being at ex's BD party. If you dared open your mouth, it would have been deja-vu all over again. You know your place, and that's shut up and obey.
He is brutal, and that was an inate rage that made him use Rhianna's head like a punching bag. It just won't change because he's with another girl.
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Tavern Ale - AleWerks Brewing Company
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Ratings: 150 | Reviews: 79 | Display Reviews Only:
3.38/5 rDev -8.6%
Pours dark brown with a light tan head that stays for awhile. The smell is sweet up front, not much going on, some faint malty smells. Starts very sweet, some sour notes in the middle, then finishes with some strong roasted notes. The aftertaste is of the roasted malt and gets pretty strong. The mouthfeel is ok, the different flavors don't work well together, lots of carbonation, not great balance. This one is an decent drinker, ok flavor, nothing amazing, but still worth a try.
03-07-2009 04:50:44 | More by wingman14
District of Columbia
3.58/5 rDev -3.2%
Poured the color of brownie batter, and just as opaque. Thankfully, however, it isn't sludge. Soda-like, off-white head displays decent retention, settling to a thin but creamy cap and fairly thick ring. Good lacing.
Smell isn't unlike brownies either. Chocolate, maple sweetness, with slight nuts and grains. Roasted notes.
Nutty, grainy flavor. Roasted coffee grains. Malty, but not the sweet concoction I was expecting. A strong amount of bittering at the end, and definitely some drying to go with the roasted qualities. It's almost like the hops just jump out of concentration with the malt, they don't quite fit in.
A bit thin. A good amount of carbonation, some creaminess. A solid effort, but not one of Williamsburg's best.
02-03-2009 19:38:32 | More by TheMistler
3.65/5 rDev -1.4%
Darker than expected, nice color. This beer was malty in taste with some what of a smokie taste in there somewhere. Very rich flavor and a bit of hops near the end to finish it off. It smells malty, almost chocolaty. Tavern Ale is good, it is much like the dark nut brown ales of many microbrews and very rich. Not a beer you want to drink one after the other, it more of a sipper's beer.
01-19-2009 03:15:14 | More by soupermirl
3.35/5 rDev -9.5%
A Dark, rich, earthy color, 1 inch malted milk head. Nice lacing that inexplicably disappeared when I wasn't looking.
S Sweet toffee, rich hop character. Kinda smells German. Some kind of vegetable/plant thing going on. Smells sweeter as it warms.
T A little better than the smell suggested. Sweet malt, moderate spices, and I still want to say German or Bohemian hoppiness. Some aluminum on the finish.
M Smooth, nice tingle. The body reminds me of a bock/doppel bock more than an ale. Dry.
D A fine session beer, at least until the dryness becomes too much.
11-15-2008 03:47:43 | More by 7ways
New Jersey
3.15/5 rDev -14.9%
Appearance: cloudy brown in color with a 1" head that slowly falls. No lacing develops during the session.
Smell: very mild aroma as only a hint of caramel is detectable.
Taste: caramel, bits of chocolate, ripe fruits, some hints of brown sugar, mild bitterness, and an overall earthy tone.
Mouthfeel: medium bodied. Smooth throughout. Very brief aftertaste.
Drinkability: the flavor is all over the board, so this becomes tough to finish the pint glass. Try some other styles from this brewery first.
10-12-2008 19:21:28 | More by Gavage
3/5 rDev -18.9%
Pours dark brown with a fizzy, bubbly tan head that pops down (in a rather unpleasant way) to a thin, slowly vanishing, cover.
The smell is nutty with a bit of caramel/toffee. There is a floral/leafy something going on that detracts from malt aromas.
The taste is of toffee - towards chocolate - sweet with a leafy bitterness that is slightly metallic. There's something I can't quite pinpoint, but is unpleasant (sourish?). It throws it off, but, thankfully, is in the background. Finishes sweetish.
It is on the lighter side of medium-bodied, with carbonation that borders aggressive.
A "forgettable" brown. The maltiness almost shows itself nicely, but there are detractors (metallic and that "something else") that get in the way. Maybe it was to create balance, understandably, but done in the wrong way. In the end, I neither "like" nor "dislike" this one. Ho-hum feelings about it, mainly from the little irritants about it that add up.
09-09-2008 22:01:10 | More by jwc215
New York
3.53/5 rDev -4.6%
12 oz. bottle into a pint glass.
Appearance: Nice dark brown with red highlights, billowing head slowly going down, and wild lacing left in smaller clumps, all amidst the tons of tiny carbonation bubbles surging toward the top.
Smell: Brown sugar along with nice mildly roasted malts, some graininess, and mid chocolate and coffee sweetness.
Taste: Roasred malt, brown sugar, mild chocolate with some hop sourness and citrus. An interesting balance and take on a brown ale.
Mouthfeel: More medium bodied, thought slightly slick, even with its mildly effervescent burst of carbonation at the end.
Drinkability: Flavorful where I could session it, though the sourness may end up being a bit too much after one or two. Still a solid choice and an enjoyable one.
08-12-2008 18:04:00 | More by asabreed
4.22/5 rDev +14.1%
A: A nice looking pour with a one finger head quickly receding to a lingering ring around my pint glass. Dark brown pour that invites a taste.
S: Malty with a slight hoppiness in the whiff. Certainly some hoppiness but it was entwined with some musty, chocolaty, woodiness that was very enticing.
T: Wow! I really like the woodiness in this brew. A definate recommendation.
M: Very good.
D: I could quaff a couple of these. Very good brown ale. I think George Washington would like this one.
07-28-2008 03:18:04 | More by Saunapoika
New Jersey
3.38/5 rDev -8.6%
Williamsburg Tavern Ale
A- Cola brown with a good size foamy head. Good lacing.
S- Sweet molasses malt with a touch of cocoa powder.
T- Sweet malt hints of molasses and dried fruits. Good dry cocoa powder body.
M- Sweet and malty. Decent dry body and finish.
Overall- A bit weak for a nut brown but easy to drink and enjoyable. After finishing my 6er I'd move on though.
07-04-2008 21:46:37 | More by NJpadreFan
North Carolina
2.78/5 rDev -24.9%
Pours a nice light brown with a great frothy head that was lasting and left great lacing. Aroma was a decent blend of sweet malts and subtle hops. The taste was WAY too sweet for my tastes, almost wort-like or even characteristic of an unaged Barley Wine with low alcohol content. The beer is light bodied with decent carbonation, but the sweetness is too overbearing. This one was a drain pour.
07-03-2008 04:47:13 | More by atsprings
4.15/5 rDev +12.2%
I was really pleasantly surprised with this one. Pours a slightly cloudy brown color with plenty of light getting through and reddish highlights. Medium size light tan head, decent retention and light lacing on the glass. Very pronounced and pleasant smell of malt and dark fruit (plums etc.)
Tasted good. Malty but not overly sweet, rich taste of fruit and a little bitterness in the finish. Not a boring, non-descript Brown Ale
Mouthfeel was best of all. Very rich and smooth, reminiscent of a good stout after a few sips. No annoying sweetness or chalkiness with the malts. The hint of bitterness at the end is just right.
This is a very drinkable beer. Ideal for savoring or for mass quantities.
06-27-2008 01:31:07 | More by JayQue
3.93/5 rDev +6.2%
The beer pours a wonderful cloudy brown with a nice tan head. The aroma was of malt with some light hops in the background. The beer has a nice malty taste with hints of caramel and sweet berries with a bit of hoppy bitterness in the finish. The feel is medium and dry with a high degree of carbonation. This is a very pleasant beer that I could find myself drinking regularly.
06-11-2008 23:45:35 | More by claytri
North Carolina
3.45/5 rDev -6.8%
Muddy brown that looks like melted Tootsie Roll, with a thin dirty white head.
Aroma is toasted grain and chocolate malts. A lighter milk/cream sweetness sneaks in with warming. Not quite as nutty as I'd expect from a brown ale. As with so many brown ales, the aroma is merely pretty good and incredibly faint all the way around.
Mild chocolate turns into an almost metallic bitterness, with husky nut flavors riding their way through the finish. Faint burnt toffee in the background. Very much helped out by the creamy yet light body, probably the best aspect of this brown ale.
It's okay...I've certainly had many more boring brown ales. This one asserts itself with some enjoyable flavors. Goes down enjoyably enough, but I'm not enough of a brown ale nut to be flipping out over this or anything.
05-27-2008 21:57:09 | More by Metalmonk
3.65/5 rDev -1.4%
A: The beer has a decent look to it. Brown ale is a rather all encompassing style so its hard to knock anything for not to style, so this is all personal opinion the color is a bit darker than i would like and the head starts out well but dies away.
S: nothing too strong but with an almost wheat backbone covered with a roasted toasty smell.
T: it has almost a roasted nut type taste with a very slight coffee taste it is a little stronger than i would like for this style but is by no means bad. I t is more reminiscent of some sort of mild porter or stout
03-23-2008 04:09:50 | More by Redwood21
3.03/5 rDev -18.1%
12oz. bottle thanks to Dad and Linda
Pours a medium chestnut brown with a creamy tan head that maintains. Decent lacing on the glass.
Herbal hops dominate the smell with a bit of toasted malt sneaking through.
Herbal hops upfront followed by a light toasted malt backbone. Rather bitter, which lingers after the dry finish.
Medium body, medium carbonation.
An overhopped brown, and not in an overly positive way.
02-09-2008 03:21:58 | More by MaltyGoodness
3.78/5 rDev +2.2%
Had this on tap at a local bar and received a nice, thin head w/ a light brownish red color. Maybe the tap did something and I will admit it was served colder than I prefer, but there was not much smell (I will have to have another). But the taste delivered a moderate dryness from the malt (roasted maybe, but not burnt), but not overpowered by them. Also hints of fruit were picked up, and it went down very smooth w/ a touch of sweetness (caramel?). I will try this again, but is not at the top of my list as there are other brown ales that are better. I am hoping the temperature I received my beer (not ice cold, mind you) neutralized some of the malt and hop charateristics and it is better.
01-18-2008 19:54:46 | More by clayrock81
3.15/5 rDev -14.9%
Poured deep reddish-brown color with moderate tannish head. Good retention and lacing.
Smell is lightly caramel with some dark fruitiness mixed in.
Smell is way too sweet. Almost like drinking strate maple syrup or molassses.
Left a not-too-pleasant taste in the mouth.
This beer needs some tweaking.
09-05-2007 22:23:10 | More by tgbljb
South Carolina
4.28/5 rDev +15.7%
My first sampling from this brewery, I'm skeptical. Label looks a bit cheesy... and why would you spell it like that? Needs some class. Poured into an Allagash glass, with the yeast swirled and added. reading the BJCP guidelines for American Brown as I review.
A- Very dark brown, so dark that I can't really tell if it's clear or not... when held up to the light, I can see some mahogany highlights around the edges. Poured with a finger and a half of creamy light tan head, and retains it quite well.
S- Mmmm. Big, malty, nutty aroma with notes of roasted grain and molasses.
T- Malty and sweet up front, with a bit of caramel and a lot of cane sugar. Gives way to a deep, roasted grain character with just a light hint of hops in the back. Finish is malty with roastiness and some faint hops balancing nicely.
M- Medium-full body, medium-low carbonation, and a bit dry in the finish. Spot on.
D- I love it. I just presented it to my roommates, however, and they didn't like it... but then again, my roommate doesn't like brown ales, period, so... I'll have it again, and it makes me wish I was closer to VA. I highly suggest trying it. It's closer to the porter side of brown ales, but well within style. If you like roasted grain, this one's for you.
07-20-2007 01:28:41 | More by khiasmus
3.5/5 rDev -5.4%
Quite a good look to this beer. Deep chocolate brown body with a thick lingering foamy head. The head is so good it reminds me of a Guinness from the tap. Decent lace.
Aromas of toasted malts and caramel.
The flavor is a nice balance of rich bitter hops and a smooth caramel maltyness.
07-17-2007 23:12:36 | More by HugoGrim
3.7/5 rDev 0%
I had two versions of this beer - one was their inaugural first batch release, which I am lead to believe was a stronger version. The regular version is dark brown, sweet caramel, but with a nutty, smokey character that was most pleasing as it differed from most browns. The finish was a little roasty and sweet with minimal earthy hops to barely balance this away from too sweet. Nice and full bodied. The inaugural version had more roast, but in a clumsy homebrew way that didn't have as good an impact. The body was a little thinner, and the finish was not as smooth, but in a little harsher scorched grain fashion.
05-06-2007 20:07:26 | More by dedrinker
3.2/5 rDev -13.5%
The first bottle I tried from this new, very good local brewery. It presented itself very dark red, almost chocolate-colored, with a firm tan head. The aroma was not different than a bit of a bitter chocolate. Nutty to the max, this is like drinking a liquified bowl of warm mixed nuts ... it even gives you an illusion of saltiness. Robust and stout in body. Not for the faint of pallet.
02-04-2007 01:39:46 | More by Braudog
3.68/5 rDev -0.5%
This was the first beer I've had from the Williamsburg Alewerks and so far its the best. It was darker and heavier than I thought it would be and fairly high in alcohol content. I ordered a mug of it from the tap and it ended up being the only thing I had to drink all night. Had it by itself but it would have gone great with a burger. It was also a great local beer to have on a fall night in Williamsburg.
12-30-2006 21:23:04 | More by hophead311
4.18/5 rDev +13%
I'm not normaly a Brown Ale kinda guy but I find this to be very drinkable and nicely complex for the style.
Smooth and sweet with a nice bready mouthfeel. Very dark in color. A nice wood and earth smell.
This bier takes you to a cool, dimly lit pub with stone walls and a roaring fire.
An excellent brew from this new local.
12-16-2006 21:29:38 | More by BierManVA
3.58/5 rDev -3.2%
12 oz. bottle, unfiltered. It pours quite dark, almost like a porter, with low carbonation and an almost yellow, tan head. The aroma consists of chocolate/roasted malts and the flavor adds to this notes of coffee, dark fruits, and piney/grapefruity hops. The body is medium, with tingly carbonation and a light finish. Overall not great, but could be good with some tweaking.
12-05-2006 04:28:49 | More by mmmbeer
3.53/5 rDev -4.6%
Great looking beer. Smell was earthy, hints of apricot and brown sugar. Taste was like an Imperial Brown Ale. Alcohol very prominent.made that leathery brown ale taste even harsher. Hops were barely there. Kind of mess in the taste department...all over the place. It looked and smelled great though.
11-06-2006 07:40:16 | More by Bleedingshrimp
Tavern Ale from AleWerks Brewing Company
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