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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…

3 min readFeb 21, 2023

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

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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…

10 min readNov 23, 2022

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

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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…

9 min readOct 4, 2022

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

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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

6 min readJul 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…

4 min readJan 3, 2021

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Kaplan-Meier Survival Analysis in Python

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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…

3 min readAug 12, 2019

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Easily Query ORC Data in Python with PySpark

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Under the Hood of AdaBoost

A short introduction to the AdaBoost algorithm

5 min readJan 7, 2019

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Under the Hood of AdaBoost

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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…

1 min readOct 30, 2018

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Creating factors and re-ordering factor levels in R

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Build & Deploy Data Science Projects at Lightspeed

(or thereabouts).

3 min readSep 3, 2018

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Build & Deploy Data Science Projects at Lightspeed

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When to use a Trimmed Mean

A (Very) Quick Primer on Descriptive Statistics

3 min readAug 27, 2018

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When to use a Trimmed Mean

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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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