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Views and opinions expressed are solely my own. A friend sent me the following TikTok video where the speaker refers to “The Dice Game,” consisting of the following steps:

Views and opinions expressed are solely my own. The analogue to the popular game Minesweeper in Zelda’s Skyward Sword HD is known as Thrill Digger. I wrote R code to help assist me in playing Thrill Digger.

Views and opinions expressed are solely my own. Introduction This post explains the mathematics behind predictive text in natural language processing (NLP), as well as a brief simulation.

Views and opinions expressed are solely my own. Introduction In this post, we will be building from the linear regression theory post and applying these concepts to a practical problem.

Views and opinions expressed are solely my own. From Fall 2019 through Spring 2021, I was an adjunct instructor at Normandale Community College, teaching Foundations of Data Science (DSCI 2000).

Views and opinions expressed are solely my own. Introduction The purpose of this post is to discuss the mathematics of decision trees and random forests. We first begin by discussing regression trees.

Views and opinions expressed are solely my own. Introduction The purpose of this post is to discuss the mathematics of support vector machines (SVMs) in detail, in the case of linear separability.

Views and opinions expressed are solely my own. Users of linear regression often assume when performing linear regression, error terms have to be normally distributed and have constant variance for each fixed \(x\)-value.

Views and opinions expressed are solely my own. Background With COVID-19 vaccines now being widely available in the U.S., I’ve seen various interpretations of vaccine efficacy rates. As one example, the paper disseminating the study on the efficacy of BioNTech and Pfizer’s vaccine BNT162b2 states in its results section:

Views and opinions expressed are solely my own. Background I hold a bachelor’s degree in mathematics (with a statistics emphasis) and a master’s degree in statistics. Statistical education, on its own, is insufficient to address modern data needs.