Analytics Dispatch 10/7/2019
How America moves its homeless
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT?
When is a Neural Net Too Big for Production?
This post shows examples of successfully shipping large natural language processing transformer models. - Neal Lathia
SURVIVAL ANALYSIS
Modeling Conversion Rates and Saving Millions of Dollars Using Kaplan-Meier and Gamma Distributions
“Computing a conversion rate is often fairly straightforward and involves nothing more than dividing two numbers... [But] when there is a substantial delay until the conversion event, this analysis suddenly gets vastly more complex.” - better.engineering
FLASH FORWARD
almanac
This new package allows R users to do things like construct a business calendar, which they can then use to shift dates forward and skip over weekends and holidays. - Davis Vaughan
ONE-WAY TICKET
Bussed Out: How America Moves Its Homeless
The Guardian has conducted the first detailed analysis of America’s homeless relocation programs, compiling a database of around 34,240 journeys and analyzing their effect on cities and people. - The Guardian
EASY PEASY
Exploring Your Data With Just 1 Line of Python
Short, sweet, and to the point. - Towards Data Science