A description of a visualisation of some 19th century Australian borrowing records from the Australian Common Readers Project.
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Research-Changing Books
Monday, May 26th, 2008
In response to a post by Peter Turney, I list the books I feel shaped my research career.
Visualising ROC and Cost Curve Duality
Monday, April 21st, 2008
Discussion of the point-line duality between Drummond and Holte’s cost curves and ROC curves. An applet is provided to help visualise this relationship.
The Earth Is Round (p < 0.05)
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
I love finding old essays on statistics. The philosophical and methodological wars that rage within that discipline make for fun reading. Particularly enjoyable are those essays - inevitably written by older, well-respected researchers - who make a strong point with beautiful rhetorical flourish and no small amount of barbed humour.
The title of a journal article [...]
JMLR Discussion On Boosting
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
The upcoming Volume 9 of the Journal of Machine Learning Research is dedicated a chunk of its pages to a paper entitled “Evidence Contrary to the Statistical View of Boosting” by David Mease and Abraham Wyner. Following this is a number of responses by heavyweights including boosting’s earliest proponents, Freund and Schapire, as well as [...]
Staying Organised with CiteULike and BibDesk
Thursday, February 7th, 2008
I recently started using CiteULike to keep track of papers I read. For those not familiar with it, it deems itself to be “a free online service to organise your academic papers”. In contrast to my offline bibliography organising tool, BibDesk, a service like this has at least three main advantages:
Reduced data entry: If someone [...]
A Crash Course in Convex Analysis
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
I’ve been attempting to read an interesting NIPS 2007 paper entitled Estimating divergence functionals and the likelihood ratio by convex risk minimzation and realised my knowledge of convex analysis was sketchy at best.
Fortunately, Wikipedia pointed me to an excellent summary of the Legendre-Fenchel transformation by Hugo Touchette. A bit more digging around Hugo’s site led [...]