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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 was aware of that, but I would still be interested to know the actual costs. I do not think "it is ok to blog about potential fraud in scientific publications because GoFundMe will pay for my l…
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While a favorable ruling for the Data Colada defendants seemed incredibly likely in the end (and of course being dismissed pre-trial before discovery is a good thing). But it still took over a year, a…
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In the same page you quote, https://crimede-coder.com/services/PredictiveAnalytics , the next sentence states "CRIME De-Coder has developed methodology to make predictive ana…
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The examples are crime analysis focused, you can see the final chapter end-project example here, https://github.com/apwheele/CrimeBook . But yes the fundamentals are the same for …
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Even with secrets if the CICD machine can talk to the internet, you could just broadcast the secrets to wherever (assuming you can edit the yaml and trigger the CICD workflow). I was thinking maybe a …
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This seems to come from a place that "learning virtual environments is too much work". I do not agree with that premise. Having a lab where you introduce environments and the command line (w…
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This is a good take on that admin like identifying dupes is a feature and can be grating for newcomers. But I don't think their is a practical upper bound on good questions though, so the reducti…
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This was my thought as well. I don't like showing the scatterplots in these examples, as "correlation" I think is more associated with the correlation coefficient than the more generi…
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They had a similar article for some of the warehouses in the states and I showed the rates are what you would expect using OSHA injury data, https://andrewpwheeler.com/2022/11…
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This example could be all javascript (and I try to do that in some scenarios). Most of the other demo's on my site are just javascript/D3 or other libraries even with some slightly more adva…
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Yes this is part of the price of running it client side instead of having a server do all the data manipulation. It is pretty much a wash for RAM for me vs running locally (local is 200-300 for python…
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For folks interested in seeing a usecase, I have a panel dashboard of Dallas crime statistics at: https://crimede-coder.com/graphs/Dallas_Dashboard Startup takes around a minute …
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Yes it should be a "+", thank you. Just because marginal cost for software can be close to zero in some circumstances does not make demand curves meaningless!
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In https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/mnsc.2020.360... , assuming the demand curve slopes downward, a quite reasonable guess as to the optimal point on the d…
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The map to view directly is here, https://crimede-coder.com/graphs/DurhamHotspots I made a video to discuss several of the cartographic decisions in making an interactive hotspot…
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I am not a fan of the kernel density estimators with a continuous color ramp (at least this map the KDE does not recalculate on zoom, that is pretty much worthless). Currently the UI on the left retur…
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This is too broad IMO. It is on the edge of LEO sensitive info, so even if you did a FOIA request I think you would be shot down. I don't think there is any chance PDs will voluntarily post this.…
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The quoted statement is IMO fine -- standard error as a term is only used to refer to the error around an estimate, not the marginal distribution. Now to the target audience, it was criminologists mon…
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For statsmodels for the methods I am familiar with you can pass in frequency weights, https://www.statsmodels.org/stable/generated/statsmodels.gen... So that will be a bit d…