Predicting NBA Playoff Berths: FiveThirtyEight vs Betting Markets 2021-12-17 TLDR: FiveThirtyEight’s forecasts of NBA playoff berths seem to hold-up OK against betting markets. If you trust them, you should consider betting against the Lakers right now. In The Virtues and … stringr dplyr glue gt rvest janitor lubridate purrr tidyr readr fs broom
Macros in the Shell: Integrating That Spreadsheet From Finance Into a Data Pipeline 2021-05-10 There is many a data science meme degrading excel: (Google Sheets seems to have escaped most of the memes here.) While I no longer use it regularly for the purposes of analysis, I will always have a … dplyr digest mvtnorm purrr readr glue readxl here
Quantile Regression Forests for Prediction Intervals 2021-04-21 In this post I will build prediction intervals using quantile regression, more specifically, quantile regression forests. This is my third post on prediction intervals. Prior posts: […] This … workflows ggplot yardstick gt forcats scales pander
Simulating Prediction Intervals 2021-04-05 Part 1 of my series of posts on building prediction intervals used data held-out from model training to evaluate the characteristics of prediction intervals. In this post I will use hold-out data to … workflows devtools gt ggplot forcats scales pander
Understanding Prediction Intervals 2021-03-18 Prediction intervals provide a measure of uncertainty for predictions on individual observations. This post… […] This is the first of three posts on prediction intervals (Part 2 employs … AmesHousing dplyr rsample recipes gt parsnip workflows ggplot yardstick stringr tidyr forcats scales pander
Influencing Distributions with Tiered Incentives 2020-11-02 In this post I will use incentives for sales representatives in pricing to provide examples of factors to consider when attempting to influence an existing distribution. For instance, if you have a … ggplot dplyr purrr forcats
Should You Use an Assignment as Part of Your Hiring Process for a Data Scientist? 2020-10-27 A version of this question was asked on my alumni Slack channel. There were some excellent points brought up by those answering the question in the negative, including that… […] I think each of …
Linear Regression in Pricing Analysis, Essential Things to Know 2020-08-17 Pricing is hard. […] Price is Right Contestant… struggling […] This is particularly true with large complicated products, common in Business to Business sales (B2B). B2B sellers may lack … AmesHousing dplyr equatiomatic broom
