This picture compares two different types of bootstrap (parametric and non-parametric) with their traditional counterpart. References Which Bootstrap When? Introduction to Empirical Processes and Semiparametric Inference Front Cover Michael R….
Gradient Descent has a problem of getting stuck in Local Minima. The following alternatives are available. The following is a summary of answers suggested on CrossValided, originally posted here. Source…
This week I reminisce back to when I didn’t know anything about visualization, and all I wanted to do was solve analysis problems. Also, some fun updates on the way,…
For Knowable Magazine, Betsy Mason looks at the state of (not so good) data visualization in science and offers some direction for how it can improve: [S]cience is littered with…
In this interview from O’Reilly Foo Camp 2019, Eric Jonas, assistant professor at the University of Chicago, pierces the hype around artificial intelligence. Highlights from the interview include: Jonas argues…
alt.interoperability.adversarial (EFF) — If adversarial interoperability still enjoyed its alt.-era legal respectability, then Facebook alternatives like Diaspora could use their users’ logins and passwords to fetch the Facebook messages the…
It’s time to kick the tires on some new tools. I’ve been running FlowingData Membership for almost eight years now, and one of the main benefits is that you get…
You’ve probably seen the composite map of lights at night from NASA. It looks a lot like population density. Tim Wallace adjusted the map for population, so that you can…
The importance of completeness in linear regressions is an often-discussed issue. By leaving out relevant variables the coefficients might be inconsistent. Assuming a linear complete model of the form: z…