Something I learned during my graduate studies is that jails – like the old Don Jail as it once existed in Toronto (photographed by me above) – has special significan...
It’s been said that Data Scientist is the “sexiest job title of the 21st century.” This is because of one main reason that there is a humongous amount of data ...
Who wants to hear a story about data?! …(silence)… Understandably, not a lot of people would raise their hands to an intro like that. For me, however, data ha...
The opportunity to watch and coach the University of San Francisco (USF) students during our annual Hackathon with our friends at Good Dataprobably taught me as much as i...
In 1963 Benoit Mandelbrot published an article called “The Variation of Certain Speculative Prices.” It is a response to the forming theory that would become Modern...
Summary: We’re rapidly approaching the point where AI will be so pervasive that it’s inevitable that someone will be injured or killed. If you thought this was co...
In the blog “Data Science ‘Paint by the Numbers’ with the Hypothesis Development…,” I introduced the Hypothesis Development Canvas as a tool for linking an ...
I’ve spent time over the last few months attempting to enhance my skills in the statistical sub-field of causal inference. Overly simplified, causal inference compr...
This article was posted by Dean Attali. Dean is currently an R-Shiny consultant. Shiny is a package from RStudio that can be used to build interactive web pages with R....
Most of the literature we find on machine learning talks about two types of learning techniques – supervised and unsupervised. Supervised learning is where we have a ...