Is R Shiny Versatile Enough to Build a Video Game?
A Video Game? In R Shiny? For the last two years, RStudio has been organizing a competition to showcase the power and flexibility of Shiny as a framework for creating app...
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IBM's new quantum computer finally achieves a quantum advantage
The online conference, IBM Think 2020, was held in May 5-6 2020. During that conference, Dario Gil, IBM Research Director, was visibly, almost orgasmically, excited with ...
Simple Trick to Dramatically Improve Speed of Convergence
We discuss a simple trick to significantly accelerate the convergence of an algorithm when the error term decreases in absolute value over successive iterations, with the...
Simple Trick to Dramatically Improve Speed of Convergence
We discuss a simple trick to significantly accelerate the convergence of an algorithm when the error term decreases in absolute value over successive iterations, with the...
COVID-19 Social Distancing Has Mitigated 2020 Flu Season
by Mike Thurber, Principal Scientist, Elder Research Three weeks ago, our Brief Is the Spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Being Slowed looked at the impact of social dist...
Coronavirus: Age and Health
by Peter Bruce, President & Founder, Statistics.com Although there are frequent reports in the news media of young people contracting serious cases of COVID-19 and ev...
COVID-19 Asymptomatic Rates and Implications
by Mike Thurber, Principal Scientist, Elder Research A key issue for COVID-19 response policies moving forward is the asymptomatic rate – people who have the virus ...
Covid-19: Epidemiological Models vs. Statistical Models
by Peter Bruce, President & Founder, Statistics.com Nearly everyone is now familiar with the IHME Covid-19 forecasts (also called the “Murray” model after the lea...
Is the Spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Being Slowed?
by Mike Thurber, Principal Scientist, Elder Research The COVID-19 pandemic has created a need for clear and actionable analytics like never before. The world can’t wait...
Randomised algorithms
Randomised algorithms are built on statistical features played by random numbers. Quicksort is a good example to illustrate this algorithm. For instance, in a class of ...