Notes to New and Returning DSC Writers
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Quasi A/B test: An overlooked opportunity in company-sponsored research
Andrea Polonioli & Ciro Greco Leading companies have been seizing the unprecedented opportunities offered by the web to test hypotheses quickly by using controlled ex...
DSC Weekly Digest for January 18, 2022: Web 3 Isn’t About Blockchain … It’s About Gaming
Microsoft announced today the purchase of Activision / Blizzard, creators of such game titles as World of Warcraft, Diablo, Spyro, Call of Duty, and many other titles, ex...
Neat R Plots with the Cairo Graphics Library
I spent much of my career in business intelligence and marketing. Programming in R was never one of my top skills. While I started programming in R more than 30 years ago...
DSC Weekly Digest 11 January 2022: Houston, We Have Lift-off
If you are a long-time reader of Data Science Central, you may notice, the next time you visit, that things look a bit … different than they did before. The site is les...
Using DSC News Feeds
Newsfeeds are some of the more useful features of many websites, albeit frequently underappreciated by those who see feeds as just an odd-ball bit of text. A typical news...
Trends Towards 2022
It’s the last week of the year. The gifts have been opened (well, the ones that aren’t currently still sitting in a dock in Los Angeles after being ordered in...
DSC Weekly Digest 04 Jan 2022: Can Machine Learning Do Symbolic Manipulation?
Can Machine Learning Do Symbolic Manipulation? I spent some time over the holidays engaged in a fascinating online conversation. The gist of it was a variation of a...
DSC Weekly Digest 28 December 2021: An Auld Lang Syne (and Cosyne Too)
The last week of the year has traditionally been about reflections and planning, taking stock of the old (or auld), and preparing for the changes of the new. I’ve a...
Could we Live in a Universe with Fewer than Three Dimensions?
No, I am not a flat-earther. Quite the contrary, the ideas suggested here assume advanced scientific knowledge, such as quantum physics. The famous Cambridge-based physic...