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Comment · 1 year ago
As well as many of the key innovations for OLEDs (patents they later sold to LG)
Comment · 2 years ago
I like Vega-Lite: https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/

It’s built by folks from the same lab as D3, but designed as “a higher-level visual specification language on top of D3” [https://vega.github.io/vega/about/vega-and-d3/]

My favorite way to prototype a dashboard is to use Streamlit to lay things out and serve it and then use Altair [https://altair-viz.github.io/] to generate the Vega-Lite plots in Python. Then if you need to move to something besides Python to productionize, you can produce the same Vega-Lite definitions using the framework of your choice.

Comment · 2 years ago
They do mention covariates in section 6.1 - specifically how this method doesn’t support them but ideas on how they could in the future such as via stacking:

> In this work, we have focused on univariate time series forecasting since it constitutes the most common of real-world time series use-cases. Nevertheless, practical forecasting tasks often involve additional information that must be taken into account. One example involves covariates, that can be either time-independent (e.g., color of the product) or time-varying (e.g., on which days the product is on sale). Another closely related problem is multivariate forecasting, where historic values of one time series (e.g., interest rates) can influence the forecast for another time series (e.g., housing prices). The number of covariates or multivariate dimensions can vary greatly across tasks, which makes it challenging to train a single model that can handle all possible combinations. A possible solution may involve training task-specific adaptors that inject the covariates into the pretrained forecasting model (Rahman et al., 2020). As another option, we can build stacking ensembles (Ting & Witten, 1997) of Chronos and other light-weight models that excel at handling covariates such as LightGBM (Ke et al., 2017).

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Lots of great suggestions here, but one I haven't seen is providing deep links. Let users share the exact state of their dashboard with others, ideally without requiring some convoluted system of logging in and sharing things. We implemented it by allowing a json config in the url, then providing a button to copy a shortened URL containing the whole config.

Original creator of (the now woefully dated-looking) GBD Compare [https://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-compare/] here, where we found this super useful since we had so many controls that it could take a lot of clicking (and knowledge of the UI) to recreate a graph someone else was looking at. It really helped with reach, as folks could email/tweet their specific view then others could use that as a starting point to dive in without starting from scratch or having to create an account.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Thanks, I’ll give it a shot sometime and share whatever I figure out
Comment · 4 years ago
When I looked into it a couple years ago, it was possible to configure nbdev to use e.g. GitLab instead of GitHub for those of us who can't use GitHub for whatever reason. Is this still possible with the rewrite? Any major things we'd be missing out on?

And thanks for putting together such an awesome resource, I'm excited to try kicking the tires on it again!

Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Awesome book, Ravin! I’m waiting for my physical copy to arrive (should be here tomorrow!) before really diving in, but what I’ve skimmed in the digital copy so far is great.

Btw I’ve been using PyMC2 since 2010 and contracted a bit with PyMC Labs, so I’m surprised we’ve never bumped into each other!

Comment · 4 years ago
And it’s not just that the wheel well needs to be in front of the passengers, but also the front crumple zone is very important to passenger safety in many of the most common crash scenarios.
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Comment · 9 years ago
For those interested in global health, we've tried to collate as much data as possible at http://ghdx.healthdata.org/ (disclosure: I'm the director of data science at IHME, which hosts this).

Note that most of this data is population level epidemiologic and administrative stuff, not the detailed biomedical measurements I see most people requesting - but I promise you there's some really interesting things that can be done with it nonetheless!

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