Building Intuition through Visualization — Introduction From political science to cancer genomics, Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) has proved to be a valuable tool for statistical analysis in a variety of different fields. At a high level, MCMC describes a collection of iterative algorithms that obtain samples from distributions that are difficult to sample directly. These…

Use permutation feature importance to discover which features in your dataset are useful for prediction — implemented from scratch in python. — Introduction Advanced topics in machine learning are dominated by black box models. As the name suggests, black box models are complex models where it’s extremely hard to understand how model inputs are combined to make predictions. …

I tried Porfoliodown: The Data Science Portfolio Website Builder – here are my thoughts. — So you want to be a data scientist? You’ll need a data science portfolio. A data science portfolio website is one of the best ways to launch your career, proving to hiring managers and recruiters that you can actually do the job. Unfortunately, the skills necessary to make a beautiful…

Evaluating FargoRate and BilliauRate Simulations Four days prior to the 2021 World Pool Masters, I posted an article with my tournament predictions based on FargoRate and BilliauRate simulations. This article breaks down what I got right and what I got wrong. Alexander Kazakis wins the 2021 World Pool Masters The 2021 World Pool Masters was a story of…

Simulating the 2021 World Pool Masters using FargoRate and Other Probabilistic Models — The Dafabet 2021 World Pool Masters presented by Matchroom Pool is one of the most highly-anticipated 9-ball pool invitational events of the year. With $100,000 on the line, twenty-four of the world’s best will compete over 4 days with the likes of 2020 Mosconi Cup MVP Jayson Shaw, 2021 World…

Everything you need to know about Rtex files, how to make them, and how Rtex compares with R Markdown An open letter to my fellow statistics students, I decided to major in statistics during my sophomore fall while taking Stat 110: Introduction to Probability because I loved solving fun problems. Coin flipping! Gambling! Game show hosts with a…