Data Science Presentation Slides
Thanks to everyone for coming out. Slides can be found here. Doesn't work well in mobile and touchscreen browsers. Code for simulation can be found here. Code for polling data example can be found here. I learned a lot from...
Topic Modeling 1: Simulated LDA Corpus
Because I am self-taught in many of the areas of computer science and more advanced statistics and probability theory I am most interested in, and because I have a deep aversion both to looking foolish and being full of it...
To the Basics: Bayesian Inference on A Binomial Proportion
Think of something observable - countable - that you care about with only one outcome or another. It could be the votes cast in a two-way election in your town, or the free throw shots the center on your favorite...
By the books...
Most of the applications of Bayesian methods I've encountered and used to date are in the areas of text mining and machine learning, such as topic modeling using LDA models, naive bayes classifiers, and in time series analysis (Kalman filters...
Laplacian Ambitions: In Which I Will Master Bayesian Data Analysis
There are a few reasons for this pursuit, to be honest. Gaining additional marketable skills, for one. Becoming a Bayesian samurai can only help me in my quest to continue to get paid to play with data, right? Data science...
