Jesus Ramos's Blog Posts Tagged 'datascience' (3)

A “quick” introduction to PyMC3 and Bayesian models

A “quick” introduction to PyMC3 and Bayesian models, Part I

In this post, I give a “brief”, practical introduction using a specific and hopefully relate-able example drawn from real data.…

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Added by Jesus Ramos on May 8, 2018 at 10:00am — No Comments

A Note on Numerical Modality in Large Datasets

Numerical Modality

The mode is one of the basic statistics which is defined as the most common value over an array. When the values of the array are categorical, the mode is easy to detect by selecting the one with the most occurrence. The problem of identifying the modes on a numerical array is harder since the values…

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Added by Jesus Ramos on May 8, 2018 at 9:30am — No Comments

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Uncertainty

Humans and uncertainty

Since their early days, humans have had an important, often antagonistic relationship with uncertainty; we try to kill it everywhere we find it. Without an explanation for many natural phenomena, humans invented gods to explain them, and without certainty of the future, they consulted oracles.

It was…

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Added by Jesus Ramos on May 8, 2018 at 9:00am — No Comments