SIST thought 1: likelihood and priors for model space
This was a thread on Twitter but I wanted to share it here for a different audience. Today’s thought (actually … Morecontinue reading.
This was a thread on Twitter but I wanted to share it here for a different audience. Today’s thought (actually … Morecontinue reading.
A. Background The Open Powerlifting initiative attempts to create an accurate and open archive of all powerlifting meet data throughout the world. As someone who recently started competing again after...continue reading.
In the R parallel package, there are two implementations of parallelism, e.g. fork and socket, with pros and cons. For the fork, each parallel thread is a complete duplication of...continue reading.
I’m not saying this is a good idea, but bear with me. A recent question on Stack Overflow [r] asked why a random forest model was not working as expected....continue reading.
This week we return to Australian Rules Football, the R package fitzRoy and some statistics to ask – why can’t Geelong win after a bye? (with apologies to long-time readers...continue reading.
This was a thread on Twitter, and I thought should reach a different audience here too. If you wonder why … Morecontinue reading.
Over 20% of Amazon’s North American retail revenue can be attributed to customers who first tried to buy the product at a local store but found it out-of-stock, according to...continue reading.
Over 20% of Amazon’s North American retail revenue can be attributed to customers who first tried to buy the product […] The post Build Thousands of Automated Demand Forecasts in...continue reading.
It has been only two months since I summarized my reviews of point-and-click front ends for R, and it’s already out of date! I have converted that post into a...continue reading.
More Google StreetView ideas. Suppose you wanted a measure of infrastructure investment, or of fragility because maintenance has been cut … Morecontinue reading.
You have a nominal predictor variables with many values. That is to say, there are many categories and they do … Morecontinue reading.
Hi all, Niloy Biswas (PhD student at Harvard) and I have recently arXived a manuscript on the assessment of MCMC convergence (using couplings!). Here I’ll describe the main result, and some...continue reading.
I’m now starting workshops on some topics with this small group exercise: You’re the CEO of a startup that’s going … Morecontinue reading.
I have released a few months ago a Python package for particle filtering, called particles; you can find it on Github here. You may want to have a look first...continue reading.
Agarrada a mis costillas le cuelgan las piernas (Godzilla, Leiva) Penrose tilings are amazing. Apart of the inner beauty of tesselations, they have two interesting properties: they are non-periodic (they...continue reading.
This tutorial will explain the NumPy random choice function which is sometimes called np.random.choice or numpy.random.choice. I recommend that you read the whole blog post, but if you want, you...continue reading.
In my ongoing quest to track The Popularity of Data Science Software, I’ve just updated my analysis of the job market. To save you from reading the entire tome, I’m...continue reading.
I’m clearing out some books. You can buy them! They are all good ones, it’s just that I don’t need … Morecontinue reading.
If you are having the following symptoms at your company when it comes to business KPI forecasting, then maybe you need to look at automated forecasting: Ugly Excel spreadsheets with...continue reading.
If you are having the following symptoms at your company when it comes to business KPI forecasting, then maybe you […] The post Automate Your KPI Forecasts With Only 1...continue reading.