Why & how automl package automl package provides: Deep Learning last tricks (those who have taken Andrew NG’s MOOC on Coursera will be in familiar territory) hyperparameters autotune with metaheuristic (PSO) experimental stuff and more to come (you’re welcome as coauthor!) Deep Learning existing frameworks, disadvantages Deploying and maintaining ...

Two statistical indices crossed my inbox in the last week, both of which use fast food restaurants to measure a concept indirectly.First up, in the wake of recent hurricanes, is the Waffle House Index. As The Economist explains:Waffle House, a breakfas...

Did you ever want to do a quick exploratory pass on a panel data set? Did you ever wish to give somebody (e.g., a reviewer or a fellow researcher), the opportunity to explore your data and your findings but can’t provide your raw data? Do you get bored ...

Adding Data Before I can make a chart, I need to have some data. For this example, I will load a CSV data set which...

Introduction This post is going to be the most ambitious one so far. Months ago I decided to develope a R package from scratch to learn a little about the process. So I dug up some code I wrote and I got to the work. And of course, for a ...

In 2016, 2.1 million Americans were found to have an opioid use disorder (according to SAMHSA), with drug overdose now the leading cause of injury and death in the United States. But some of the country’s top minds are working to fight this epidemic, and statisticians are helping to lead the ...

Some pre-Halloween post today. It started actually while I was in Barcelona : kids wanted to go back to some store we’ve seen the first day, in the gothic part, and I could not remember where it was. And I said to myself that would be quite long to do ...

Here is the course link. Course Description Data visualization is an integral part of the data analysis process. This course will get you introduced to rbokeh: a visualization library for interactive web-based plots. You will learn how to use rbokeh l...

Here is the course link. Course Description This course will help you take your data visualization skills beyond the basics and hone them into a powerful member of your data science toolkit. Over the lessons we will use two interesting open datasets t...

“What is the probability of ending a round with zero points in Dr. Burnörium’s Psycho Dice Russian Roulette Game?” That question came up during a Psycho Dice gaming session, when we noticed that turns ending with zero points occur about a quar...