So what’s with the clickbait (high-energy physics)? Well, it’s not just clickbait. To showcase TabNet, we will be using the Higgs dataset (Baldi, Sadowski, and Whiteson (2014)), available at UCI Machine Learning Repository. I don’t know about you, b...

Decision Trees with R Decision trees are among the most fundamental algorithms in supervised machine learning, used to handle both regression and classification tasks. In a nutshell, you can think of it as a glorified collection of if-else statements, but more on that later. Interested in more basic machine learning ...

 It costs now 299$ now to sequence your genome [https://nebula.org/whole-genome-sequencing-dna-test/]. It is getting cheaper to generate genomic data and more of it is coming through. We can't see the same trend for the people who can analyze the ...

 It costs now 299$ now to sequence your genome [https://nebula.org/whole-genome-sequencing-dna-test/]. It is getting cheaper to generate genomic data and more of it is coming through. We can't see the same trend for the people who can analyze the ...

When observational data includes a treatment indicator and some possible confounders, it is very tempting to simply regress the outcome on all features (confounders and treatment alike), extract the coefficients associated with the treatment indicator, and proudly proclaim that “we have controlled for confounders and estimated the treatment effect”. This ...

Some time ago I worked with a supplier who creates excellent cooling equipment for industrial use. Basically an impressive watercooler. The cooling capacity of these devices is depending on the temperature outside and of the…Continue Reading "Cool 3D plots"

Countless times, while working on a project I had to copy a file and save it with a suffix like _v1, _v2 or _my_name. It was almost always because the file was saved on a shared drive, multiple people were working on it and som...

Recently I found myself with some free time on my hands so I decided to learn a new skill, or at least start learning. So I thought to myself, what would be a good skill that would help me as a data analyst or would have helped me in the ...

What’s this all about This past November I participated several times in the #30DaysMapChallenge, a daily mapping visualization challenge. While I was satisfied with what I came up with, my main outcome was that I have no idea how to work with maps. Well, to say it differently, I ...

What’s this all about This past November I participated several times in the #30DaysMapChallenge, a daily mapping visualization challenge. While I was satisfied with what I came up with, my main outcome was that I have no idea how to work with maps. Well, to say it differently, I ...

I ran into a bit of a snag when updating a {blogdown} site. Suddenly, inexplicably, the images were no longer present. When I investigated I found that some HTML tags looked like this:

<img src="{{< blogdown/postref >}}index_files/figure-html/unnamed-chunk-3-1.png">

Obviously there’s something wrong there! And that {{__ blogdown/postref __}} looks like a Hugo shortcode. After ...

A few weeks ago, I tuned into an RStudio talk by John Burn-Murdoch about reporting and visualizing the COVID pandemic. As a data journalist at the Financial Times, he has been extremely influential over the past year creating well-known charts and ...

What’s this all about This past November I participated several times in the #30DaysMapChallenge, a daily mapping visualization challenge. While I was satisfied with what I came up with, my main outcome was that I have no idea how to work with maps. Well, to say it differently, I ...

TLTR: Spatial signatures are multi-value representations of the patterns that compress information about spatial composition and configuration. Spatial signatures can be directly compared using various distance measures. Describing categorical ras...