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Can 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 Einstein

10 min readAug 2, 2021

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Towards Data Science

Singapore’s COVID-19 Curve Has Flattened

An update to Singapore’s COVID-19 Situation

5 min readJul 1, 2020

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Timothy Tan
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Towards Data Science

A Novel Solution to Cleaning Extremely Dirty Unstructured text

After two whole weeks of trial and error and almost thinking it was impossible… I did it.

8 min readJun 24, 2020

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Towards Data Science

Back to Basics: Assumptions of Common Machine Learning Models

Forget deep learning and neural networks for a moment and remember the basics.

7 min readJun 8, 2020

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Back to Basics: Assumptions of Common Machine Learning Models

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Towards Data Science

I 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.

14 min readJun 3, 2020

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I Analyzed Towards Data Science Post Titles to Understand What Readers were Interested In — Here…

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Is 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.

6 min readJun 2, 2020

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Is the COVID-19 Curve Flattening in Singapore?

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Real World Example on Web Scraping with Selenium and Beautiful Soup

5.39 Billion.

11 min readMay 25, 2020

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Towards Data Science

Evolution of Language Models: N-Grams, Word Embeddings, Attention & Transformers

This post collates research on the advancements of Natural Language Processing (NLP) over the years.

7 min readMay 19, 2020

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Timothy Tan
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Towards Data Science

Are Deeper Networks Better? —A Case Study

Are deeper networks better? How so? What are the downstream effects on bias/variances and prediction outcomes?

12 min readMay 7, 2020

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Timothy Tan
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Towards Data Science

Examples of Bias Variance Tradeoff in Deep Learning

Concrete examples and illustrations on how the bias-variance tradeoff looks like in Deep Learning

7 min readMay 2, 2020

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Timothy Tan

Timothy Tan

A data science enthusiast who loves to research and work on different Natural Language Processing (NLP) problems in his free time.

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