Posts
2017
2017 in review- Books
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Books
Fun
It’s time for Official Book Reflection Time.
Data is my co-pilot
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Stats
Data Science
Article report time! Today I read this, Five Ways to Fix Statistics, Nature (Nov 2017). It interviews six statistics luminaries about what’s ‘wrong’ with modern statistics.
I <3 waves
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Learning
Fun
Science
My formal education in physics ended in high school - what a shame!
Priors all the way down
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Data Science
Bayes
Stats
Today I learned something very handy- how to encode subjective beliefs into a Bayesian prior when you only have information on the quantiles.
How I read
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Fun
Books
This year, I read 104 books. My goal was 100. This is probably the maximum number of books I can read and still get something out of.
Power bummer
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Learning
Stats
Thinking
Data Science
I’ve been thinking a lot about power lately. One of my favorite things!
Automatic desktop backgrounds
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Tutorial
Fun
Python
One of my first Python projects was automating a daily desktop background.
Journey to the center of data science
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Learning
Data Science
I’ve been asked by more than two people about what my ‘journey to the center of data science’ was and, well, one of my core values is automation.
Hello, Pelican!
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Tutorial
Python
Meta
For the past few months, I’d been looking to start a mostly-tech blog.
Learning the bash Shell (2005) - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Books
Dead-Tree-Book
Tech