Articles by Dr. Shirin Glander

JAX 2018 talk announcement: Deep Learning – a Primer

January 29, 2018 | Dr. Shirin Glander

I am happy to announce that on Tuesday, April 24th 2018 Uwe Friedrichsen and I will give a talk about Deep Learning - a Primer at the JAX conference in Mainz, Germany. Deep Learning is one of the “hot” topics in the AI area – a lot of hype, a lo...

Sketchnotes from TWiML&AI #94: Neuroevolution: Evolving Novel Neural Network Architectures with Kenneth Stanley

January 27, 2018 | Dr. Shirin Glander

These are my sketchnotes for Sam Charrington’s podcast This Week in Machine Learning and AI about Neuroevolution: Evolving Novel Neural Network Architectures with Kenneth Stanley: Sketchnotes from TWiMLAI talk #94: Neuroevolution: Evolving Novel Ne...

Join MünsteR for our next meetup on obtaining functional implications of gene expression data with R

January 23, 2018 | Dr. Shirin Glander

In our next MünsteR R-user group meetup on March 5th, 2018 Frank Rühle will talk about bioinformatics and how to analyse genome data. You can RSVP here: http://meetu.ps/e/DDY1B/w54bW/f Next-Generation sequencing and array-based technologies prov...

Sketchnotes from TWiML&AI #92: Learning State Representations with Yael Niv

January 18, 2018 | Dr. Shirin Glander

These are my sketchnotes for Sam Charrington’s podcast This Week in Machine Learning and AI about Learning State Representations with Yael Niv: https://twimlai.com/twiml-talk-92-learning-state-representations-yael-niv/ Sketchnotes from TWiMLAI talk...

How to make your machine learning model available as an API with the plumber package

January 15, 2018 | Dr. Shirin Glander

The plumber package for R makes it easy to expose existing R code as a webservice via an API (Trestle Technology, LLC 2017). You take an existing R script and make it accessible with plumber by simply adding a few lines of comments. If you have worked with Roxygen before, e....

Sketchnotes from TWiML&AI #91: Philosophy of Intelligence with Matthew Crosby

January 13, 2018 | Dr. Shirin Glander

These are my sketchnotes for Sam Charrington’s podcast This Week in Machine Learning and AI about Philosophy of Intelligence with Matthew Crosby: You can listen to the podcast here. This week on the podcast we’re featuring a series of conversa...

TWiMLAI talk 88 sketchnotes: Using Deep Learning and Google Street View to Estimate Demographics with Timnit Gebru

January 9, 2018 | Dr. Shirin Glander

These are my sketchnotes taken from the “This week in Machine Learning & AI” podcast number 88 about Using Deep Learning and Google Street View to Estimate Demographics with Timnit Gebru: Sketchnotes from TWiMLAI talk #88: Using Deep Learning...

Looking beyond accuracy to improve trust in machine learning

January 9, 2018 | Dr. Shirin Glander

I have written another blogpost about Looking beyond accuracy to improve trust in machine learning at my company codecentric’s blog: Traditional machine learning workflows focus heavily on model training and optimization; the best model is usually chosen via performance measures like accuracy or error and we tend to assume ...

Registration now open for workshop on Deep Learning with Keras and TensorFlow using R

December 19, 2017 | Dr. Shirin Glander

Recently, I announced my workshop on Deep Learning with Keras and TensorFlow. The next dates for it are January 18th and 19th in Solingen, Germany. You can register now by following this link: https://www.codecentric.de/schulung/deep-learning-mit-keras... [Read more...]

Explaining Predictions of Machine Learning Models with LIME – Münster Data Science Meetup

December 11, 2017 | Dr. Shirin Glander

Slides from Münster Data Science Meetup These are my slides from the Münster Data Science Meetup on December 12th, 2017. My sketchnotes were collected from these two podcasts: https://twimlai.com/twiml-talk-7-carlos-guestrin-explaining-predictions-machine-learning-models/ https://dataskeptic.com/blog/episodes/2016/trusting-machine-learning-models-with-lime Sketchnotes: TWiML Talk #7 with Carlos Guestrin – Explaining the Predictions of ... [Read more...]

MICE (Multiple Imputation by Chained Equations) in R – sketchnotes from MünsteR Meetup

November 27, 2017 | Dr. Shirin Glander

Last night, the MünsteR R user-group had another great meetup: Karin Groothuis-Oudshoorn, Assistant Professor at the University of Twente, presented her R package mice about Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations. It was a very interesting talk and here are my sketchnotes that I took during it: MICE talk sketchnotes ... [Read more...]

Workshop on Deep Learning with Keras and TensorFlow in R

November 19, 2017 | Dr. Shirin Glander

You can now book me and my 1-day workshop on deep learning with Keras and TensorFlow using R. In my workshop, you will learn the basics of deep learning what cross-entropy and loss is about activation functions how to optimize weights and biases with ...

How to combine point and boxplots in timeline charts with ggplot2 facets

November 17, 2017 | Dr. Shirin Glander

In a recent project, I was looking to plot data from different variables along the same time axis. The difficulty was, that some of these variables I wanted to have as point plots, while others I wanted as box-plots. Because I work with the tidyverse, I wanted to produce these ...

Explore Predictive Maintenance with flexdashboard

November 1, 2017 | Dr. Shirin Glander

I have written the following post about Predictive Maintenance and flexdashboard at my company codecentric’s blog: Predictive Maintenance is an increasingly popular strategy associated with Industry 4.0; it uses advanced analytics and machine learni...

Blockchain & distributed ML – my report from the data2day conference

September 27, 2017 | Dr. Shirin Glander

Yesterday and today I attended the data2day, a conference about Big Data, Machine Learning and Data Science in Heidelberg, Germany. Topics and workshops covered a range of topics surrounding (big) data analysis and Machine Learning, like Deep Learn...

From Biology to Industry. A Blogger’s Journey to Data Science.

September 19, 2017 | Dr. Shirin Glander

Today, I have given a webinar for the Applied Epidemiology Didactic of the University of Wisconsin - Madison titled “From Biology to Industry. A Blogger’s Journey to Data Science.” I talked about how blogging about R and Data Science helped me be... [Read more...]

Why I use R for Data Science – An Ode to R

September 18, 2017 | Dr. Shirin Glander

Working in Data Science, I often feel like I have to justify using R over Python. And while I do use Python for running scripts in production, I am much more comfortable with the R environment. Basically, whenever I can, I use R for prototyping, testin... [Read more...]

Welcome to my page!

September 12, 2017 | Dr. Shirin Glander

I’m Shirin, a biologist turned bioinformatician turned data scientist. I’m especially interested in machine learning and data visualization. While I am using R most every day at work, I wanted to have an incentive to regularly explore other types of analyses and other types of data that I ...

Moving my blog to blogdown

September 11, 2017 | Dr. Shirin Glander

It’s been a long time coming but I finally moved my blog from Jekyll/Bootstrap on Github pages to blogdown, Hugo and Netlify! Moreover, I also now have my own domain name www.shirin-glander.de. :-) I followed the blogdown ebook to set up my blog. I chose Thibaud ...

Data Science for Fraud Detection

September 5, 2017 | Dr. Shirin Glander

I have written the following post about Data Science for Fraud Detection at my company codecentric’s blog: Fraud can be defined as “the crime of getting money by deceiving people” (Cambridge Dictionary); it is as old as humanity: whenever two parties exchange goods or conduct business there is the ...

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