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What does a data scientist read? My Reading for Jan-March 2022

Data science does not tend to stand still, but grinding learning can instead grind you down.

9 min readApr 28, 2022

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What does a data scientist read? My Reading for Jan-March 2022

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Towards Data Science

Named Tuples: A Little Known Machine Learning Helper

Keeping track of multiple variables can become a bit of a nightmare during machine learning development. Named Tuples can help.

8 min readNov 23, 2020

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Named Tuples: A Little Known Machine Learning Helper

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Data Realism: Where Models Trip Up

They often say that the step between prototype to production is the death knell of many a data science dream.

4 min readNov 16, 2020

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Data Realism: Where Models Trip Up

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Towards Data Science

Gaussian Processes: Make Your Own Objectives In Life

We can use Bayesian Optimisation to tune our models, but did you know if can do a lot more?

9 min readNov 12, 2020

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Gaussian Processes: Make Your Own Objectives In Life

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Towards Data Science

Gaussian Processes: Smarter Tuning for Your ML Models

Often the best performance of models depends on the right parameters but can be too computationally expensive to test every combination.

8 min readNov 2, 2020

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Gaussian Processes: Smarter Tuning for Your ML Models

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Towards Data Science

A Little Pre-Work Can Help Sell Data Science Projects

If your company is not sold on the benefits data science, then a bit of pre-work can boost your chances immensely in getting them to take…

10 min readSep 17, 2020

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A Little Pre-Work Can Help Sell Data Science Projects

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Quick Algorithm Lookup 101

Looking at some of the other common data science algorithms out there

12 min readJul 12, 2020

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Quick Algorithm Lookup 101

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Invisible Illness

Ruined Relationships: The Hidden Cost of Coronavirus

My own experiences of Covid-19 destroying my family unit, not through disease but in differences on how to live isolated together.

11 min readMay 10, 2020

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Ruined Relationships: The Hidden Cost of Coronavirus

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Towards Data Science

Lockdown Learning Resources for Data Scientists

For better or worse you may have a lot more time on your hands these days and here is a list of free(ish) learning resources to help you

8 min readMay 5, 2020

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Lockdown Learning Resources for Data Scientists

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Impurity & Judging Splits — How a Decision Tree Works

If you want to learn how machine learning algorithms work then you cannot go wrong by starting at the humble Decision Tree.

10 min readMar 2, 2020

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Impurity & Judging Splits — How a Decision Tree Works

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Paul May

Paul May

Data Scientist, Astrophysics PhD, reliability engineer and part time writer. I love exploring the world of science and how it shapes the world we live in.

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