Healthcare or the Economy? Bull! It’s Healthcare AND the Economy
We have a once in a lifetime opportunity to address one of modern society’s biggest challenges – the choice between healthcare or the economy. For the past several ...
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Simulating COVID-19 with Agent-Based Modeling
Here are some (very) early outputs from an Agent-Based Model of COVID-19 that I’m currently developing. It allows configuring a number of parameters including: popu...
Ontologies and Semantic Annotation. Part 2: Developing an Ontology
In the previous part, we started to outline what ontologies are and how they may be used; now it is time to get into more practical guidelines and tips that would help bu...
An introduction to Statistical Inference and Hypothesis testing
Inference In a previous blog (The difference between statistics and data science), I discussed the significance of statistical inference. In this section, we expand on th...
Speaker Diversity Analytics with the Microsoft AI Face API
How do we increase diversity amongst our event speakers? To improve something, we must first measure it. The Face API allows us to collect some of these demographics ...
Statistical Uncertainty: Why are Covid-19 Figures so Varied?
If you’ve been keeping up on the statistics for Covid-19 in the last week (and who hasn’t?), you’ve probably noticed a wide variety of projections for d...
COVID-19 Forecast: China as a Reference
With the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak, we look at the data and use a simple model inspired by China’s example to predict when the outbreak will abate in various count...
Reasons to file for a patent, even if your employer does not offer patent bonuses.
What is the Measure of a Successful Patent What passes for wisdom from a (modestly) successful “Patent Ace” Figure 1: Ben Franklin’s “Glass Armonica,” an organ ...
How Technology tops HR trends in 2020
The world of today is digital! Every business, every person across the world has felt the impact of a digital transformation, and the field of HR has been no exception to...
Understanding Covid-19 Statistics (in plain English)
My original intent with this article was to write about how to understand statistics in general. However, with the global pandemic on everyone’s minds right now, it...