Derek Sollberger @dsollberger@qoto.org

"We at Unity have a super secret plan to gauge metrics"

(this post is completely sarcastic)

If anyone is looking for a data scientist with years of experience---classroom, research analyses, admin, data viz, Bayesian, GIS, and more---let me know!

Me and homies trying to get something through several academic committees

"... and yet, when you think about daily life, I mean if we would only get married because there was only a 1 in 20 chance we wouldn't make a mistake, no one would get married." --- Naomi Oreskes, on how a lot of science is thrown out if its p-value is not less than 0.05

TIL that m.a.s.l. is an acronym for 'mean above sea level' for elevation maps.

However, growing up in the 1990s, "A/S/L" meant something different

#mappymeme

TIL that Cards Against Humanity conducted surveys and has posted raw data. My statistics courses just got a lot more interesting

https://thepulseofthenation.com/#future

I once again put off for three weeks a task that took 10 minutes

Today I had some time to try out #TidyModels and plotting decision trees. Here is one example with the Palmer Penguins

found data

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/13d2zdi/panda_accidentally_gave_me_their_daily_stats_with/

For years, I have been searching for the ability to make color-coded flowcharts, and I have found "graphviz online!". For example, here is the Stardew Valley complete breakfast

revised a lecture on machine learning, and I had to set a seed because I wanted to ensure that the random forests did NOT achieve 100 percent accuracy

So, I am doing a couple of filler "Introduction to Machine Learning" lectures here at the end of my Math 32 semester (Probability for Engineers). Today, I had some guest students that appeared for these sessions. It turned out that they (a group of 6) had just participated in an agricultural hack-a-thon last weekend, and they wanted to learn more! It was great to trade ideas with them.

My data science students exclaim and complain that ChatGPT cannot [yet] do their semester project for them.

playing a video game, and one of the characters is named "Nan".

My mind first thought "not a number"

"As with any other proposal in life, they can thankfully be rejected or accepted."
---Bayes Rules!

I've been chasing for several weeks a setback in my MCMC simulations

and I finally fixed the issue tonight

my week in research