Timothy TanCan You Explain the P-value to Your Grandmother? — Here’s an Intuitive Explanation.“ You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ” — Albert EinsteinAug 2, 2021Aug 2, 2021
Timothy TaninTowards Data ScienceSingapore’s COVID-19 Curve Has FlattenedAn update to Singapore’s COVID-19 SituationJul 1, 2020Jul 1, 2020
Timothy TaninTowards Data ScienceA Novel Solution to Cleaning Extremely Dirty Unstructured textAfter two whole weeks of trial and error and almost thinking it was impossible… I did it.Jun 24, 2020Jun 24, 2020
Timothy TaninTowards Data ScienceBack to Basics: Assumptions of Common Machine Learning ModelsForget deep learning and neural networks for a moment and remember the basics.Jun 8, 20201Jun 8, 20201
Timothy TaninTowards Data ScienceI Analyzed Towards Data Science Post Titles to Understand What Readers were Interested In — Here…As a writer I’ve always wondered what posts interest readers and if there was a way for me to get a sense of that. Turns out, I could.Jun 3, 20203Jun 3, 20203
Timothy TaninTowards Data ScienceIs the COVID-19 Curve Flattening in Singapore?Is the COVID-19 curve really flattening in Singapore? Most News charts only show part of the picture. Here’s a better visualization.Jun 2, 20202Jun 2, 20202
Timothy TaninTowards Data ScienceReal World Example on Web Scraping with Selenium and Beautiful Soup5.39 Billion.May 25, 2020May 25, 2020
Timothy TaninTowards Data ScienceEvolution of Language Models: N-Grams, Word Embeddings, Attention & TransformersThis post collates research on the advancements of Natural Language Processing (NLP) over the years.May 19, 20205May 19, 20205
Timothy TaninTowards Data ScienceAre Deeper Networks Better? —A Case StudyAre deeper networks better? How so? What are the downstream effects on bias/variances and prediction outcomes?May 7, 2020May 7, 2020
Timothy TaninTowards Data ScienceExamples of Bias Variance Tradeoff in Deep LearningConcrete examples and illustrations on how the bias-variance tradeoff looks like in Deep LearningMay 2, 2020May 2, 2020