David's blog

Err and err and err but less and less and less

David's blog

Err and err and err but less and less and less

Month: February 2023

xkcd and Data Science

I’ve been collecting all xkcd comics related to Data Science and/or Statistics. Here they are, but if you think I’m missing any please let me know in the comments. Use at will in your data visualisations but remember to attribute. Sorted in reverse chronological order.

Quick note about bootstrapping

Cross-validation—the act of keeping a subset of data to measure the performance of a model trained on the rest of the data—never sounded right to me. It just doesn’t feel optimal to retain an arbitrary fraction of the data when you train your model. Oh and then you’re also supposed to keep another fraction for […]

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