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Machines and People Learning. Newer posts →. Children’s science fiction and fantasy: it’s not just for children anymore! My wife and I have started listening to books on audio during car trips or in the evening, and we’ve discovered that there are some absolute gems in the children’s literature section of the library. Yep, kid’s stories aren’t just for kids anymore. (And I wish I’d had stories like this when I was growing up! Especially the audio CD’s. Continue reading →. Posted in Less techie. I just up...
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Book recommendation: Longitudinal Structural Equation Modeling | Thinkinator
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Machines and People Learning. Free-form spreadsheet-ish app for Mac and Windows. Dividing a sandwich fairly →. Book recommendation: Longitudinal Structural Equation Modeling. Longitudinal Structural Equation Modeling. Todd D. Little, Guilford Press 2013. I could go on, but the bottom line is the book is well-written, entertaining, enlightening, well-illustrated, insightful, and it covers many areas of basic SEM as well as the specifics of the more complicated longitudinal SEM. It’s $60 for a 38...You are...
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Machines and People Learning. Free-form spreadsheet-ish app for Mac and Windows. I’ve just discovered a unique app on the Mac App Store called Calca. It’s like a simple word-processor, except you can define variables and functions and do arithmetic with them, and it understands units and currencies and it handles matrices and vectors, and supports basic Markdown, and … it’s pretty amazing. Continue reading →. Posted in Data Science. My incredible employer, Elder Research, Inc. Follow me on Twitter.
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Data Science | Thinkinator
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Machines and People Learning. R Users Will Now Inevitably Become Bayesians. Interestingly, both of these packages are elegant front ends to Stan, via. How they help you, and how they differ. Continue reading →. Posted in Bayesian Statistics. Real Data Science pt1: Review of Numbersense. I’ll start the series with a review of Kaiser Fung’s Numbersense. Continue reading →. Posted in Data Science. Book recommendation: Longitudinal Structural Equation Modeling. Longitudinal Structural Equation Modeling.
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Less techie | Thinkinator
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Machines and People Learning. Dividing a sandwich fairly. I like to read various Stack Exchange. Websites, and one of them has a wonderful discussion of how you might divide a sandwich between three people fairly. Most of us are familiar with the two-person version: one person cuts and the other person gets the first choice. But what about if there are three people, or more? Continue reading →. When R graphics go bad… Picasso. I just read about a website, accidental aRt. Posted in Less techie. It turns o...
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Children’s science fiction and fantasy: it’s not just for children anymore! | Thinkinator
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Machines and People Learning. When R graphics go bad… Picasso. Free-form spreadsheet-ish app for Mac and Windows →. Children’s science fiction and fantasy: it’s not just for children anymore! In particular, we’ve been listening to audio CD’s and several of them have superb a voice acting that really enhances the story. These stories show incredible imagination, and in this posting I’d like to highly recommend two series: The. Especially the audio CD’s. I really can’t do justice to the creativity of...
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Machines and People Learning. Free-form spreadsheet-ish app for Mac and Windows. I’ve just discovered a unique app on the Mac App Store called Calca. It’s like a simple word-processor, except you can define variables and functions and do arithmetic with them, and it understands units and currencies and it handles matrices and vectors, and supports basic Markdown, and … it’s pretty amazing. Continue reading →. Posted in Data Science. My incredible employer, Elder Research, Inc. Follow me on Twitter.
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Book Review | Thinkinator
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Machines and People Learning. Real Data Science pt1: Review of Numbersense. So far, when I’ve written on Data Science topics I’ve written about the fun part: the statistical analysis, graphs, conclusions, insights, etc. For this next series of postings, I’m going to concentrate more on what we can call Real Data Science. I’ll start the series with a review of Kaiser Fung’s Numbersense. Continue reading →. Posted in Data Science. Book recommendation: Longitudinal Structural Equation Modeling. Let me start...
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Machines and People Learning. BRMS 0.8 adds non-linear regression. Just a quick posting following up on the brms/rstanarm posting. They’ve added non-linear regression. Non-linear regression. Is fraught with peril, and when venturing into that realm you have to worry about many more issues than with linear regression. It’s not unusual to hit roadblocks that prevent you from getting answers. (Read the Wikipedia links Non-linear regression. And Non-linear least squares. To get an idea.). So far, when I̵...
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Inspiration | Thinkinator
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Machines and People Learning. The Earth is round, and maps are flat. That’s a problem for map makers. And a source of endless entertainment for geeks. Carlos A. Furuti has an excellent website with many projections and clear explanations of the tradeoffs of each. The main projection page. Has links to all types, including two of my favorites: Other Interesting Projections. And Projections on 3D Polyhedra. In R, the packages maps. Mapgrid (labels=FALSE, nx=36, ny=18). Published in 2013. It’s not...Website...
