March Madness is almost here! Try mixing up your office bracket competition with a Calcutta auction instead. I think the original source of this idea came from a news article similar to this one. Of course, you can also make this (mostly) risk free by using points to bid on ...

Recently at work I’ve been asked to help some clinicians understand why my risk model classifies specific patients as high risk. Just prior to this work I stumbled across the work of some data scientists at the University of Washington called lime. LIME stands for “Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations”. ...

Connecting to databases is a critical piece of data anlaysis in R. In most analytic roles the data we consume is going to be found in databases. Of these some of the most common are SQL databases like MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and Oracle in addition to many others. In ...

Time series, the course I often wish I had taken while completing my coursework in school. I finally got an excuse to do a comparitive dive into the different time series models in the forecast package in R thanks to an invitation to present at a recent Practical Data Science ...