Visualizing US Trade
Many major publishing outlets have recently created their own visuals to explain U.S. trade. One particular visualization in the Wall Street Journal caught m...
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2024
Random Number Generation
Random number generators are at the core of many applied computer science applications. For example, stochastic simulation models, statistical sampling, and ...
2023
Stay or Switch, A Frequentist Approach to Monte Hall
The Monte Hall is a famous brain teaser in the form of a probability puzzle. For the uninitiated, the problem is as follows: Consider three doors where two o...
2022
Hertzsprung–Russell Diagram in D3.js
A Hertzsprung–Russell diagram (HR diagram) is a visualization of star data which shows the relationship between magnitude and spectral characteristics. The d...
Implementing KNN In Python
K-nearest neighbors (KNN) is an algorithm which identifies the k nearest data points in a training sample to a new observation. Typically, nearest is defined...