MBF Data Science

Projects

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FireMind

Machine learning is adept at distinguishing patterns which evade human faculties, and there’s a wealth of historically available data about wildfire. Training machine learning models is slow, but once…

Detecting Novel Research Abstracts With Natural Language Processing

Mapping Research Groups

I’d like to take a moment to write about my ongoing research using bibliometrics to map and understand research…

Setting up a Personal Website with Medium

Setting up a personal website can be frustrating. The goal…

What is Scientific about Data Science?

Before I became a data scientist, I was a philosopher of science.* Letters after my name…

2020 in Books

I had a kid January 1st, so putting together my annual best of list has been rather delayed. 2020 was a horrific year. The pandemic…

Seeing the Impact of Interdisciplinary Science Grants

The Power of Vectorizing

I was working on a problem that could be stated mathematically as follows. Given about 1.5 million unique entities, which have 500 distinct types of relationships between them, figure out how they’re connected by specific subsets of relationships and then put them into groups.