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Overview two changepoints algorithms – PELT and FPOP
Hi! As you know I have started my first year of PhD, and my research direction is anomaly detection. And ...
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It is NOT a failure for a PhD to work in the industry instead of academia
I am currently an MRes student at STOR-i, and I was thinking about the possible career path (either industry or ...
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Handling human stubbornness when people think they are smarter than data science!
Last month, we had a problem-solving day talking about handling human stubbornness during the implementation of data science. You may ...
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How could particle filter track Thanos? – explaining particle filter without mathematics
This blog will give an general idea about the principle of particle filter without mathematical proofing. Recently, we are given ...
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Statistics in Social Science(3): Step-by-Step tutorial on One-way ANOVA test
This blog will explain the one-way ANOVA test in detail (including assumptions, implementing situation and explanation), and an example analysed ...
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How do grocery stores know pregnancy? Why is the beer aisle always next to the diapers? – Data science in the retail industry
Recently, I was interested in the application of data science. It is well known that data science could be used ...
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Statistics in Social science (2): Explaining Linear regression
This blog will give you a real example how to explain linear regression Why we need linear regression? People in ...
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3 steps to build own R package – Rcpp
This blog is to give ideas how to build R package through Rcpp and C++. Here we assume our readers ...
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Statistics in Social science (1): How to choose an appropriate correlation test?
This blog will give you the idea of choosing an appropriate statistical correlation test in social science area. Recently I ...
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Why does Amazon always guess our preference? – explaining contextual bandit problem without mathematics
This blog will give you an idea of the rationale behind the recommendation system. How contextual bandit problem works in ...