Issue 301 Sep 1st 2020

— In the News —

How FiveThirtyEight’s Presidential Forecast Works

For anyone interested in understanding the nuances of the upcoming U.S. election, this detailed walk-through of FiveThirtyEight's forecast model is a must-read. Includes a summary of prior forecasts, 2020 considerations, polls, uncertainty and variables.

Is Your Chart a Detective Story? Or a Police Report?

There's a lot to be said for charts that are transparent and easy to understand. But have you ever been pulled in and delighted by a puzzling visualization that you just had to unravel? Great essay!

— Tools and Techniques —

microCOVID Project

If the prevalence of COVID is 0.3% in your neighborhood, how risky is it to go to the grocery store today? The answer depends on a variety of factors and for most people, it's a wild guess. The microCOVID Project aims to change that. Their calculator helps build your intuition with a numerical risk estimate for specific, everyday activities.

Information Visualization Tutorials

Great set of lectures, slides and Jupyter notebook tutorials covering the fundamentals of data wrangling and visualization. Includes things like visual perception, interactivity, dimensionality, temporal analysis, text processing, evaluation and more.

Many Models Workflows in Python

Nice tutorial that shows to do tidyverse-style EDA in Python.

The Neural Network, A Visual Introduction

Awesome 15 minute video that uses animation to show how neural networks work. This is the first part of a series that's been getting a lot of praise around the web this week.

Build, Deploy & Monitor ML with Amazon SageMaker

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Code

VS Code Debug Visualizer - a VS Code extension for visualizing data structures while debugging.
Newspaper3k - simplified article discovery and extraction in Python
U.S. presidential election forecasting model from The Economist
einops - provides a declarative interface for manipulating and reshaping multi-dimensional arrays. Supports numpy, pytorch, TF, etc.
equatiomatic - easily render R model objects into LaTeX equations for R Markdown

— Resources —

Big Book of R

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