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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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This is not inconsistent with How to Measure Anything IMO (I like that book as well). The biggest issue to me is that he does not define actual follow ups on ROI -- it is all estimated in this framewo…
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Bollards are also good ideas to prevent intentional terrorist acts of driving cars into pedestrian areas, https://www.nbcnews.com/slideshow/terrorist-truck-attack-sho... .…
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OP for sharing this on hackernews (and I talked to Tyler Dukes a bit about this). I think ALPR's are good investments, but having more rigorous standards in place for when people can do searches …
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We are a python shop (end to end machine learning, so we do all of our data pipelines ourselves). So ours is pytest that builds up a fake database + tables to unit test the scripts. And otherwise it i…
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I think this is right. For counterpoint though, there will of course be variance, but an opposite hypothesis is a larger proportion have labor jobs (men moreso than women). Grew up in rural PA (mostly…
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SEEKING WORK | Remote | Raleigh, NC, USA PhD (in criminal justice), and with my background mostly focus on mathematical modeling in the public sector. This includes program analysis (I did X and want …
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Reading the paper, this is pretty weak sauce findings. Here is the main scatterplot showing the fit lines, https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczOuepTKEj908Wc8Gkx... The mai…
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I get that part -- I don't get the bad website though. Like why have a http website? At least have a legit website and advertise your services no? How did they get the contracts for outsourced wo…
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I have a similar background, and I just use a $5 a month Hostinger plan that manages the PHP server and I am quite happy with it. So it is just keeping my server side secrets in PHP in a way that make…
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TLDR, maternal morbidity in US sources often widens the net to include things like drug overdoses. Whereas other sources do not, and that can explain the discrepancy between US and other nation matern…
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Agreed a bit of different use cases. (Or maybe should say the SPC approach is a better/more principled approach, whereas this is an easy graphical approach and I don't need to worry about &q…
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Not SPC, but in a similar spirit usecase, I have code examples here of calculating confidence intervals around proportions in SQL, https://andrewpwheeler.com/2020/11/30/…
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Agree with this, I am pretty agnostic to the pandas vs R whatever stuff (I prefer base R to tidyverse, and I like pandas, but realize I am old and probably not in majority based on comments online). B…