With vaccines, we might be tempted to jump back into “normal” life before…Tags: Columbia University, coronavirus, model, New York Times, vaccine

Just a couple of handy functions to visualise and overview data

Tom Scott explains how Cloudflare uses a wall of lava lamps to generate…Tags: Cloudflare, lava lamp, randomness, Tom Scott

I recently received two large data files from a client, with names like foo.xlsx and foo.csv. Presumably these are redundant; the latter is probably an export of the former. I did a spot check and that seems to be the case. Then I had a bright idea: use pandas to …

For The Atlantic, Dani Alexis Ryskamp compares the financials of The Simpsons against…Tags: Atlantic, median, money, The Simpsons, work

This post is an expansion of something I wrote on Twitter: Data scientists often complain that the bulk of their work is data cleaning. But if you see data cleaning as the work, not just an obstacle to the work, it can be interesting. You could think of it as …

Last year, around the time when people were baking a lot of things,…Tags: baking, food, machine learning, recipe

OpenAI trained a neural network that they call DALL·E with a dataset of…Tags: images, neural network, OpenAI, text

David Li, in collaboration with Google Arts and Culture, made a fun experiment…Tags: blob, David Li, Google, machine learning, opera

Shiny Website | Github | LinkedIn Introduction Guns and gun ownership have long become one of the most emblematic features of the United States, both in popular media and in policy. The vast majority of information pertaining to firearms has come to us translated through disparate, often politically partisan sources, …

Suppose you want to estimate the number of patients who respond to some treatment in a large population of size N and what you have is data on a small sample of size n. The usual way of going about this calculates the proportion of responses in the small sample, …

Eugene Wei looks closer at the algorithms that drive TikTok and how its…Tags: algorithm, Eugene Wei, TikTok

Prompted by a tweet about scented candles without smell and Covid-19, Kate Petrova…Tags: Amazon, candles, coronavirus, Kate Petrova, smell

Roger Peng outlines four main roles of a data scientist: If you’re reading…Tags: data science, jobs, Roger Peng

Gross domestic product (GDP) is the total monetary or market value of all the finished goods and services produced within a country's/state’s borders in a specific time period. As a broad measure of overall domestic production, it functions as a comprehensive scorecard of a given country’s/state’s economic health. But, is …

Both Pfizer and Moderna have announced recently that their SARS-COV2 vaccine candidates reduce the rate of infection by over 90% in the active group compared to the control (placebo) group. That’s great news. The vaccines may turn out to be less than 90% effective when all is said and done, …

There’s a video (one of too many I am sure) going around that…Tags: debunking, election, Kristian Lum

The microCOVID Project provides a calculator that lets you put in where you…Tags: coronavirus, risk