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Machine learning model parameters [Read More]

While I was visiting with my aunt the other day she asked me, “what is machine learning?” I was caught off guard because the term is so common place in my work that I hadn’t really tried to explain it as simply as possible before. I normally think about Machine... [Read More]

Here are some random R tips and tricks that might be useful to you, or more likely, useful to me when I forget how I did the thing and need to remind myself. [Read More]

First the awesome graphic from this post comes from this really interesting project to construct model planets by procedurally generating maps on a sphere. [Read More]

Standardizing data vectors is an important step in data science. For example, different data sources often represent the same entity, such as country names, in different ways or with different spellings. In addition, small errors or formatting inconsistencies can complicate joins and lead to difficulties in downstream analysis. While excellent... [Read More]