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apwheele
1,887karma·374submissions·November 10, 2021
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Data scientist. Former academic in criminal justice field.
Personal blog at https://andrewpwheeler.com/
Consulting at https://crimede-coder.com/
Large Language Models for Mortals: A Practical Guide for Analysts (book), https://crimede-coder.com/blogposts/2026/LLMsForMortals
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I just don't get these to be honest -- besides the fact that author missed simple things like `df.groupby('var',as_index=False)`, isn't this obviously arbitrary "this is easie…
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For a random bit I feel hackernews crowd will appreciate, I clench my jaw when I get angry. I have given myself TMD (jaw pain closing/chewing and will click/pop in fits). Not recommended. Ro…
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My area (data science) there is a problem with resume embellishment and HR/tech-recruiters not having a clue (I presume similar across different tech areas). It has gotten to the point where peop…
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Agree about Pakt, but not about $50 self publish per se (nor the tenured prof remark). I am in the process of writing a code book, but it is compiled via quarto so at least you know the code works as …
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Streetview has a direct API you can query and download images, https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/streetview/... . Can set the FOV and orientation as well.…
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Based on personal experience, I have a very different opinion than Daniel. I do not think peer review adds much value over self-publishing. Consumers still need to read and verify the work themselves.…
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Had this same thought as well. Definitely comes up when calculating variance this way in streaming data. https://stats.stackexchange.com/a/235151/1036 I am not sure if `n*ol…
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I've pretty much always had this problem when making niche social networks. Get 30-50 people sign up, it gets some very mild interaction in the first month (by typically only a few of the people …
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I really like the ESRI API's (much faster than Socrata). This is a crazy url, but they do allow for different SQL operations (including spatial operations) right in the API. Here is top 10 crime …
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IMO the font size is still too small (ditto for pretty much all stat software). But matplotlib makes it quite easy to change the default look, here is mine: import matplotlib
theme = {&…
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Criminologist here -- both baron and Emma are right! (The question is moreso in terms of rates, you can find anecdotes confirming either behavior.) Two of my favorite related articles: - Serendipity i…