Blog
My random thoughts on science, math, and occassionally the places and animals I encounter.
COVID-19 Daily Updates
A rolling analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, updated routinely. Read More
Introduction to Empirical Bayes
I recently stumbled upon empirical bayes, and I was struck by how intuitive and useful this method can be. In this blog post, I study this method in the context of baseball statistics. Read More
Non-negative matrix factorization
I wrote a short tutorial on NMF. Read More
t-SNE is a plotting, not a clustering, algorithm
I wrote a short tutorial on t-SNE. I know, we all hate t-SNE, but I wanted to learn how it works. Read More