Derek Zoolander, spherical cows, the Guardian, and econophysics. The titular character is presented with a model of a building. He inspects the model and responds with anger and indignation.

Stats, datavis, edu, brains, etc. Nice example of a map with uncertainty. OK, back to statistics and datavis. The April 2015 issue of. Is highest, and another for where the probability. What level of certainty? .

Statistics, computing, data science, Bayes, stochastic modelling, systems biology and bioinformatics. Comonads for scientific and statistical computing in Scala. Statistical computing with Scala free on-line course. A quick introduction to Apache Spark for statisticians. Books on Scala for statistical computing and data science.

2 thg 4, 2013. Design Knowledge - Something I have never known. Who can say design is not significant in the modern world? Sometimes, I hear about Design and its impact on the usability and the beauty of things. Fortunately, I read an article from procul. The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A.

Counting bits with Vapnik and Chervonenkis. By mraginsky on April 28, 2015. Machine learning is about enabling computers to improve their performance on a given task as they get more data. Can we express this intuition quantitatively using information-theoretic techniques? In this post, I will discuss a classic paper. By mraginsky on May 3, 2014.

Tuesday, November 14, 2017. Ways that closed access academic publishers could improve. Accessing journal articles has certainly got easier over the years. Nonetheless, there are still many issues with how closed-access journals provide access. This hampers the scientific process.

A blog by data visualization critic, Kaiser Fung. I discuss what makes graphics work, and how to make them better. Here is my first post. From more than ten years ago. I carefully tag all posts with topics so clicking on map.

Saturday, February 25, 2017. Doing ecological research in a time of genocide. Water fleas, aka Daphnia. Data and Code for anti-Shia violence analysis. Monday, August 22, 2016.

Mengjie Chen - - University of Chicago. Chicago, IL 60637 USA. Hi, my name is. In the Department of Medicine. And the Department of Human Genetics. Before joining U Chicago, I was. An assistant professor in the Department of. At UNC-Chapel Hill from 2014 to 2016. I graduated from the interdisciplinary program of.