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→ The Most Important Machine Learning Equations: A Comprehensive Guide

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Machine Learing

Whether you’re building models, optimizing algorithms, or simply trying to understand how ML works under the hood, mastering the core equations is essential. This blog post…

→ P-Hacking in Startups

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Statistics

You looked at the results, picked the one that cleared the bar, and ignored the fact that the bar was never calibrated for this setup.

Helper Function: Load Files

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This function looks at the files inside of a specified folder and find the most recent file. I often do regular reporting and, depending on the project, I’ll organize my…

Getting Time in Stage from Blackbaud’s SKY API

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Blackbaud

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There are many things I find frustrating about Blackbaud’s Raiser’s Edge NXT product, but one that has caused more headaches than anything else has been the inability to…

Helper Function: Normalize Phone Numbers

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This is the first in a series of helpful R functions that I’ve developed, massaged, and used over the years. I’m titling these “helpR” posts in the naming style of many R…