I have been writing a book review of Efron & Hastie’s CASI for Significance magazine. Here’s a tangential half page … More
Tag: machine learning
Dataviz of the week, 31/5/17
A more techy one this week. Ruth Fong and Andrea Vedaldi have a paper on ArXiv called “Interpretable explanations of … More
Two great skills to leverage best-in-class big data science analytics
This came up on Twitter and lots of people were outraged, as you see in the replies and retweets. Many … More
Dataviz of the week, 10/5/17
Font Map is an interactive website by designers Ideo which aims to represent typefaces in 2 dimensions so you can … More
I’m going freelance
At the end of April 2017, I will leave my university job and start freelancing. I will be offering training … More
Stats and data science, easy jobs and easy mistakes
I have been writing some JavaScript, and I was thinking about how web dev / front-end people are obliged to … More
A statistician’s journey into deep learning
Last week I went on a training course run by NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute to learn TensorFlow. Here’s my reflections … More
Best dataviz of 2016
I’m going to return to 2014’s approach of dividing best visualisation of data (dataviz!) from visualisation of methods (methodviz!). In … More
So you want to be a Data Science superstar
Big house? Five cars? There’s no one universal way to do it, but get a coffee and read on through … More
