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How the Poisson Distribution Can Help Predict Video Game Combat: A Toy Example

The Poisson distribution is a powerful tool that allows us to understand the probabilities associated with X number of events occurring…

Feb 21, 2023

How the Poisson Distribution Can Help Predict Video Game Combat: A Toy Example

Feb 21, 2023

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A Case for Heuristics: Why Simple Solutions Often Win in Data Science

In this defence of heuristics, I examine how simple solutions can often be the best port of call when looking to ship data science…

Nov 23, 2022

A Case for Heuristics: Why Simple Solutions Often Win in Data Science

Nov 23, 2022

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Quantum Deep Learning: A Quick Guide to Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks

Everything you need to know about quantum convolutional neural networks (QCNNs), including the benefits and limitations of these…

Oct 4, 2022

Quantum Deep Learning: A Quick Guide to Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks

Oct 4, 2022

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Are you Scared, VADER? Understanding how NLP Pre-Processing Impacts VADER Scoring

Why common pre-processing activities can actually harm the power of VADER and why it’s important to consider your NLP pipeline carefully

Jul 18, 2021

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Jul 18, 2021

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Kaplan-Meier Survival Analysis in Python

Survival analysis is a relatively under-utilised range of statistical methods that are highly applicable in a range of fields including…

Jan 3, 2021

Kaplan-Meier Survival Analysis in Python

Jan 3, 2021

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Easily Query ORC Data in Python with PySpark

Optimized Row Columnar, or ORC, is an column-oriented data storage format, that is part of the Apache Hadoop family. While ORC files and…

Aug 12, 2019

Easily Query ORC Data in Python with PySpark

Aug 12, 2019

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Under the Hood of AdaBoost

A short introduction to the AdaBoost algorithm

Jan 7, 2019

Under the Hood of AdaBoost

Jan 7, 2019

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Creating factors and re-ordering factor levels in R

When working with data in R, you might want to convert numeric values into factors for easier exploratory data analysis or model building…

Oct 30, 2018

Creating factors and re-ordering factor levels in R

Oct 30, 2018

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Build & Deploy Data Science Projects at Lightspeed

(or thereabouts).

Sep 3, 2018

Build & Deploy Data Science Projects at Lightspeed

Sep 3, 2018

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When to use a Trimmed Mean

A (Very) Quick Primer on Descriptive Statistics

Aug 27, 2018

When to use a Trimmed Mean

Aug 27, 2018

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Head of Insights at Rare, a Xbox Game Studio. Previous experience as a data scientist and lead. Interested in deep learning, quantum computing and statistics.

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