The Effective Data Scientist

Ok – not everything, but in this episode you will get all the tips to make sure, you avoid the most common mistakes and that your code looks professional. Shafi Chowdhury is an expert programmer who has developed a style guide, which his clients apply broadly. He regularly gives trainings on SAS programming and build his own company based on these skills. He walks us through the different points a...

An awesome guided tour in the world of interpretable machine learning with Serg Masis. Serg Masis is data scientist at Syngenta, a leading science-based agtech company. Serg wrote an amazing book on interpretable machine learning [link]. All the code used for the examples illustrated in the book is freely available [link]. Serg drives us through the concept of interpretability and why it is better...

In this episode, we continue to dive into the linear regression model. What are the real-world applications? When our model fit is enough? What are the pros and cons of increasing complexity in our model? We discuss also the basic principles of covariates transformation (i.e. the logarithm) and how this has played a pivotal role in the modeling of the Covid-19 epidemics. Furthermore, we discuss ho...