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Phishing Your Team Isn't the Answer(nickselby.com)
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by apwheele 3y ago
Had this same thought as well. Definitely comes up when calculating variance this way in streaming data. https://stats.stackexchange.com/a/235151/1036 I am not sure if `n*old_mean` is a good idea. Wellford's
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by apwheele 3y ago
I've pretty much always had this problem when making niche social networks. Get 30-50 people sign up, it gets some very mild interaction in the first month (by typically only a few of the people who signed up), and then dies. (Maybe ha
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Using linear programming to assess spatial access(andrewpwheeler.com)
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Using linear programming to assess spatial access(andrewpwheeler.com)
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PCA does not make sense after one hot encoding(andrewpwheeler.com)
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Gun Buy Back Programs Probably Don't Work(andrewpwheeler.com)
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ACLU Amici Curiae in Support of Data Colada and Free Speech [pdf](storage.courtlistener.com)
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Forecasts need to have error bars(andrewpwheeler.com)
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by apwheele 3y ago
I really like the ESRI API's (much faster than Socrata). This is a crazy url, but they do allow for different SQL operations (including spatial operations) right in the API. Here is top 10 crime street segments in Raleigh for example:
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The Most Dangerous Equation (2007)(americanscientist.org)
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WebR – R in the Browser (using WASM)(docs.r-wasm.org)
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by apwheele 3y ago
IMO the font size is still too small (ditto for pretty much all stat software). But matplotlib makes it quite easy to change the default look, here is mine: import matplotlib theme = {'axes.grid': True,
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by apwheele 3y ago
Criminologist here -- both baron and Emma are right! (The question is moreso in terms of rates, you can find anecdotes confirming either behavior.) Two of my favorite related articles: - Serendipity in robbery target selection[1]. Interview
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The Flaw of Averages(thestar.com)
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Simulating Data with NumPy and Scipy(andrewpwheeler.com)
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Using the exact reference distribution for small sample Benford tests(andrewpwheeler.com)
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by apwheele 3y ago
So although tongue-in-cheek, it is an interesting question when dealing with medical records data (in particular I deal with insurance claims data in the US). So to be clear, I know the person is alive when discharged (there is a code for
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by apwheele 3y ago
Part of my job I build predictive models to identify individuals at high risk of 'readmission' (it impacts billing, hence why healthcare systems are interested). Conditional on an individual's history (e.g. do you have diabet
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Legends in Python and Matplotlib(andrewpwheeler.com)
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Synthetic control in Python: Opioid death increases in Oregon and Washington(andrewpwheeler.com)
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Insurance companies fill their networks with ‘ghost’ therapists(seattletimes.com)
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Bias in Lyft priority pickup waiting times(nxn.se)
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Using NLP to analyze rape reports(cleveland.com)
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Throwing 107 GB and 5B fake rows of order data at DuckDB and Athena(fet.dev)
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Optimal treatment assignment with network spillovers(andrewpwheeler.com)
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I have no clue how to interview for data scientists(andrewpwheeler.com)
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Traffic safety “nudges” can cause number of crashes to increase (2022)(science.org)
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Age-Period-Cohort graphs for suicide and drug overdoses(andrewpwheeler.com)
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by apwheele 3y ago
I have an analysis of cointegration between Bitcoin/Ethereum (in python) if folks are interested, https://andrewpwheeler.com/2022/02/09/cointegration-analysis... This was over a year ago, so dynamics cou

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