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How do you program? I feel like there is a lot of advice out there, but most of it focuses on the micro level rather than on the macro level. That’s why I decided to think about what makes one an efficient programmer on a macro level. Think long-term ... [Read more...]

Mastodon is a decentralized microblogging platform. We can analyse some data and directly post our findings to a Mastodon instance. For example we can plot the different TLDs used by the Mastodon Fediverse. Before posting we have to create an authorization token once. Login We can then post the created ... [Read more...]

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Townsville, Qld, has been inundated with torrential rain and has broken the record of the largest rainfall over a 10 […] The post The Most Amount of Rain over a 10 Day Period on Record appeared first on Daniel Oehm | Gradient Descending. [Read more...]

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I’ve got a post up over at $DAYJOB’s blog on using the ropendata???? package to access the ginormous and ever-increasing amount of internet telemetry (scan) data via the Rapid7 Open Data API. It’s super-R-code-heavy but renders surprisingly well in Ghost (the blogging platform we use at work) ... [Read more...]

Summer is really going to be busy, this year. But in a good way… In June, I’ll be at our annual summer school in Florence. This year, we have a slight change in the line-up — Nicky has decided to take a break from teaching with us, ... [Read more...]

As I’m waiting to catch my flight back from Stockholm (where I had a rather interesting meeting discussing Bayesian network meta-analysis. But I digress…), I am browsing the news — mainly just to keep myself awake. And I find this in... [Read more...]

CIS Primer Question 3.4.1 Posted on 15 February, 2019 by Brian Tags: CISP chapter 3, solutions, front door criteria, front door adjustment Category: causal_inference_in_statistics_primer Here are my solutions to question 3.4.1 of Causal Inference in Statistics: a Primer (CISP). \(\DeclareMathOperator{\do}{do}\) If we can only measure one additional variable to ... [Read more...]

I’m going to publish an article on how to use create custom maps. It is going to take me a little while to set it up but that is how this works. [Read more...]

As I’m waiting to catch my flight back from Stockholm (where I had a rather interesting meeting discussing Bayesian network meta-analysis. But I digress…), I am browsing the news — mainly just to keep myself awake. And I find this interesting piece of news in The Guardian. It is the ... [Read more...]

Summer is really going to be busy, this year. But in a good way… In June, I’ll be at our annual summer school in Florence. This year, we have a slight change in the line-up — Nicky has decided to take a break from teaching with us, which is a ... [Read more...]

“Hey there criminal. It’s me, Johnny Law!” - Jake Peralta, NYPD. Brooklyn Nine-Nine has become one of my favorite sitcoms in recent years, probably taking over from Parks & Recreation and Community. So in this blog ... [Read more...]

Manning has a new discount code and a free excerpt of our book Practical Data Science with R, 2nd Edition: here. This section is elementary, but things really pick up speed as later on (also available in a paid preview). [Read more...]

Abstract: The perfect circle is a shiny app providing a user friendly interface to the algorithm described in the previous blog post Judging Freehand Circle Drawing Competitions. The app allows one to score freehand circles directly from the mobile by uploading photos of them them to a shiny server. An ... [Read more...]

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A monthly roundup of news about Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science. This is an eclectic collection of interesting blog posts, software announcements and data applications from Microsoft and elsewhere that I've noted over the past month or so. Open Source AI, ML & Data Science News ONNX, the open ... [Read more...]

Real nerds on Valentines day graph hearts instead of drawing them. My drawing skills are not what I like them to be, my R skills are though! Therefore, let’s draw a heart in R instead on paper! dat [Read more...]