Data Land For Y'all Nerds Out there
Certain changes in the blogosphere and the data science industry have interfered with my ambitions for posting more analyses on this blog. But I haven’t given up. I’ll explain more later. In the meantime, I wrote the lyrics, (amateurishly) mixed and mastered the audio and edited the video for this:
Data science is a rather fuzzily defined field; some of the definitions I’ve heard are: “Work that takes more programming skills than most statisticians have, and more statistics skills than a programmer has.” “Applied statistics, but in San Francisco.” “The field of people who decide to print ‘Data Scientist’ on their business cards and get … Read more Battle of data science venn diagrams
l33t (leet, 1337) is a simple substitution cipher that started in BBSes in the early 1980s (ah, how I remember my 600 baud modem) that substitutes a few letters for numbers, e.g. ‘3’ for ‘E’. My name in l33t (and there were many versions of l33t) might be D4v1d T4yl0r or D4vid T4y10r (depending on whether the … Read more canadian postal codes that spell words
I just signed up for a 30-day trial of IBM Watson’s Bluemix, a set of mostly language processing APIs that are, in some cases, quite illuminating, and in other cases, rather entertaining. One of the tools is Personality Insights, which will take any text and algorithmically predict the personality traits of the author. When I saw there … Read more My personality, according to IBM Watson
My apologies, these maps don’t display well on mobile devices; I tried to fix it, but then they didn’t display well on wide desktop screens. I need JavaScript lessons. Riding-by-riding hexmap Last night as of this writing, October 19, 2015, Canadians once again proved how difficult polling is in this country, and tossed the ruling … Read more Hexmaps of 2015 Canadian federal
All of the so-called “Vatican” Ashley Madison clients are Virginians or Canadians with fat fingers In the week or so since the Ashley Madison hack data dump, there have been many news stories that have reported its contents uncritically, by journalists who have obviously never seen the data. One of the characterizations of the data … Read more all of so called vatican ashley madison