An AI product that will automatically tell every gas station pump that I don’t want a car wash, ever.

This will be fun Lucy D’Agostino McGowan ! So many analysts are puzzled about inclusion of the outcome variable in imputation. #WebENAR @vandy_biostat #Statistics

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I have to block bots and report spam several times a day now it seems. What an absolute crap platform this has become.

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Never gonna happen in our lifetime!

A bar graph that shows how much of the door is painted

The trouble with uncertainty quantification in ML is a lack of guarantee: prediction intervals that are too short and class probabilities are miscalibrated. A solution: conformal prediction. To get started, I wrote a beginner-friendly, hands-on book.

Three advantages of non-AI models johndcook.com/blog/2023/07/0…

Anyone thinking that it’s OK to “balance” a dataset should think twice #machinelearning

7 Baseline Predictive Models Time Series: Previous Value Anomaly: p99 Search: BM25 Recommendation: Popularity Buy recommendations: Last viewed Classification: Majority class Regression: Mean Inspired by the post from Jo Kristian Bergum

🐉 Dragons are back! 🐉 Check them out in a deep dive on Model Interpretability and Explainability for Machine Learning Models 🎥 This was taped a few years ago, but covers essential topics: 🔍 Why Interpretability Matters - Understanding the "why" behind model predictions

In celebration of its republication by CRC Press Data Science, Stats, and Math Books, we are giving away a signed copy of this classic textbook by Casella and Berger. Just like, repost, and follow me by Thursday 15th August to be in with a chance of winning! Enjoy and learn! #Statistics #DataScience #JSM2024

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What happened when MIT stopped paying Elsevier? Not much except they are saving a lot of money. "MIT is interested in collaborating with other libraries to reinvest these funds in community-controlled open publishing initiatives..." sparcopen.org/our-work/big-d…

Data Science Symposium 2024 - mailchi.mp/uc.edu/fall-20…

Don't miss Brandon Greenwell's talk at the Data Science Symposium 2024! 🧠🔍 Topic: "DAG Nammit: The Dangers of Causally Interpreting ML Models" Gain insights into making ML models more explainable and safe with causal tools like DAGs. web.cvent.com/event/53fd1776…

Academic ironies

Columbia Surgery Prof Fake Data Update . . . (yes, he’s still being promoted on the university webpage) statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/10/17/col…

Thrilled to announce that statlingua, is now officially on CRAN! 🎉 Tired of staring at confusing statistical summaries? statlingua uses LLMs to help translate complex statistical output into plain, easy-to-understand English. 🔗 CRAN: cran.r-project.org/package=statli… #rstats #LLM