Brian Danielak @capbri@social.cleverlibre.org
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Some journals think I'm a great expert when it comes to reviewing for them but a terrible researcher when authoring a paper 🤔 🤔 🤔
@kjhealy whoaaaa. It's like a Fourier Transform |> filter but so much cooler.
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Please, please, stop using "foo" and "bar” in code documentation. Give us real examples that mean something. Not "if (foo > bar)," but “if (height > limit)." Not “foo++” but “counter++”. Give us a logical hook to hang our hat on, not nonsense words.
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“The reason most public transportation is seen as ‘losing’ money is precisely because it charges for trips. If you don't charge fares, suddenly it can't ‘lose’ money. It just costs money, the same as the roads.”
This random comment has given me my new favourite argument for removing fares from public transit.
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We are dropping the Dilbert comic strip because of creator Scott Adams’ racist rant: Letter from the Editor - cleveland.com https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/02/we-are-dropping-the-dilbert-comic-strip-because-of-creator-scott-adams-racist-rant-letter-from-the-editor.html
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Expanding Tidy Data Principles to Facilitate Missing Data Exploration, Visualization and Assessment of Imputations by @njtierney and @visnut #RStats #DataViz https://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v105i07
Pandas; teaching
@gvwilson @robertkern as someone who just taught a winter course in pandas, I can confidently say that Michael Chow's work on tidyverse-in-Python (mainly the siuba package) meant that my students hardly ever had to deal with the index at all. Maybe I'm teaching pandas wrong? 🤔
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This morning I'm speaking at Harford Community College's 2023 STEM day. https://www.harford.edu/about/get-to-know-harford/news/2023/01-january/stem-day.php The slides for my talk, Data Science as a Superpower, are here: http://amelia.mn/presentations/DataScienceAsASuperPower2023.pdf
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#2731 K-Means Clustering
According to my especially unsupervised K-means clustering algorithm, there are currently about 8 billion types of people in the world.
https://xkcd.com/2731/
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It's taken me over a decade to realize how significant a problem this is, but comparing GPAs between students with significantly divergent course history is idiotic.
At least in programs with a lot of course choice, a GPA largely measures a student's ability to pick courses in which they will achieve high marks, and punishes students who challenge themselves.
@kjhealy you mean "the material?" I once got chastised by a department chair for not keeping my class in sync with the other sections. "We need to ensure a consistent product," they said. All I could think about was the hot dog scene from Koyaanisqatsi.
@Cmastication "The new Dyson Sphere vacuum: a tool for cleaning up planetary-sized messes. We guarantee it will never lose suction or radiate any of the energy of its enclosed star."
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While I’m on about nice software, the @Iconfactory’s just-right iPad/iOS sketching app Linea was updated today. I like it. https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/announcing-linea-sketch-4-2/
@Cmastication Eh, I'll just doodle a sad looking Jolly Roger, label it "James D. Long", forget about it on my desk, then call it a day 😇
@williamdoane YOUR SALUTATION HAS BEEN LOGGED AND ENTERED INTO THE MAIN HALL OF RECORDS.
print("Hello, World!")
