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Recently at home with my mom and sister and I was explaining a bit about the work I’m going to be doing in AI for digital pathology. We got talking about how there is so much data, but a scarci...

https://bayesianbiologist.com/2022/03/25/colouring-book-self-supervised-learning/

The default plot method for dataframes in R is to show each numeric variable in a pair-wise scatter plot. I find this to be a really useful first look at a dataset, both to see correlations and j...

https://bayesianbiologist.com/2015/03/28/r-style-default-plot-for-pandas-dataframe/

After a bit of a summer lull, the Montreal R User Group is meeting up again! We’re trying out a new venue this time. Notman House is the home of the web in Montreal. They hold hackathons and ot...

https://bayesianbiologist.com/2012/10/29/montreal-r-user-group-meetup-nov-14th/

Some people like to do crossword puzzles. I like to do machine learning puzzles. Lucky for me, a new contest was just posted yesterday on Kaggle. So naturally, my lazy Saturday was spent getting ...

https://bayesianbiologist.com/2012/10/13/observing-dark-worlds-visualizing-dark-matters-distorting-effect-on-galaxies/

At last weekend’s Hack Ta Ville event here in Montreal, I joined up with some talented urban planners and web devs to realize Vélobstacles. The idea of the project is to crowd source informati...

https://bayesianbiologist.com/2012/09/14/mapping-bike-accidents-in-r/

As an invasion biologist, the process of spatial spread is at the heart of what I do. When I came across this dataset of Walmart store openings since 1962 I couldn’t help but see it as an invas...

https://bayesianbiologist.com/2012/08/26/walmart-invasion/

If you haven’t yet discovered the competitive machine learning site kaggle.com, please do so now. I’ll wait. Great – so, you checked it out, fell in love and have made it back. I recently d...

https://bayesianbiologist.com/2012/08/13/the-essence-of-a-handwritten-digit/

I mentioned in a previous post that our team at the recent Hack/Reduce hackathon had some fun with a data set which consisted of Bixi station states at minute level temporal resolution. In additi...

https://bayesianbiologist.com/2012/05/17/more-bixi-data-visualization/

The recent Hack/Reduce hackathon in Montreal was a tonne of fun. Our team tackled a data set of consisting of Bixi (Montreal’s bicycle share system) station states at one minute temporal resolu...

https://bayesianbiologist.com/2012/05/08/heartbeat-of-a-cycling-city-bixi-data-at-hackreduce/