Category: numerical software

• JIGSAW-GEO v1.0

  climate models . climate science . fluid dynamics . geophysics . numerical algorithms . numerical analysis . numerical software

  Dec 3.2019
• A look at an electricity consumption series using SNCDs for clustering

  American Statistical Association . consumption . data streams . decentralized electric power generation . dendrogram . divergence measures . efficiency . electricity . electricity markets . energy efficiency . energy utilities . ensembles . evidence . forecasting . grid defection . hierarchical clustering . hydrology . ILSR . information theoretic statistics . local self reliance . Massachusetts . microgrids . NCD . normalized compression divergence . numerical software . open data . prediction . rate of return regulation . Sankey diagram . SNCD . statistical dependence . statistical series . statistics . sustainability . symmetric normalized compression divergence . time series

  Jan 11.2019
• Sampling: Rejection, Reservoir, and Slice

  accept-reject methods . American Statistical Association . Bayesian computational methods . catastrophe modeling . data science . diffusion processes . empirical likelihood . Gibbs Sampling . insurance . Markov Chain Monte Carlo . mathematics . Mathematics and Climate Research Network . maths . Monte Carlo Statistical Methods . multivariate statistics . numerical algorithms . numerical analysis . numerical software . numerics . percolation theory . Python 3 programming language . R statistical programming language . Radford Neal . sampling . slice sampling . spatial statistics . statistics . stochastic algorithms . stochastic search

  Sep 29.2018
• A quick note on modeling operational risk from count data

  American Statistical Association . Bayesian . Bayesian computational methods . count data regression . dichotomising continuous variables . dynamic generalized linear models . Frank Harrell . Frequentist . Generalize Additive Models . generalized linear mixed models . generalized linear models . GLMMs . GLMs . John Kruschke . maximum likelihood . model comparison . Monte Carlo Statistical Methods . multivariate statistics . nonlinear . numerical software . numerics . premature categorization . probit regression . statistical regression . statistics

  Sep 11.2018
• Fast means, fast moments (originally devised 1984)

  image processing . mathematics . numerical algorithms . numerical software . numerics

  Sep 6.2018
• Cathy O’Neil’s WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION: A Review

  citizen data . citizen science . citizenship . civilization . compassion . complex systems . criminal justice . Daniel Kahneman . data science . deep recurrent neural networks . destructive economic development . economics . education . engineering . ethics . Google . ignorance . Joseph Schumpeter . life purpose . machine learning . Mathbabe . mathematics . mathematics education . maths . model comparison . model-free forecasting . numerical analysis . numerical software . open data . optimization . organizational failures . planning . politics . prediction . prediction markets . privacy . rationality . reason . reasonableness . risk . silly tech devices . smart data . sociology . Techno Utopias . testing . the value of financial assets . transparency

  Oct 23.2016
• Repaired R code for Markov spatial simulation of hurricane tracks from historical trajectories

  American Meteorological Association . American Statistical Association . AMETSOC . Arthur Charpentier . atmosphere . diffusion . diffusion processes . dynamic linear models . dynamical systems . environment . geophysics . hurricanes . Kalman filter . Kerry Emanuel . Lévy flights . Lorenz . Markov chain random fields . mathematics . mathematics education . maths . MCMC . mesh models . meteorological models . meteorology . model-free forecasting . Monte Carlo Statistical Methods . numerical analysis . numerical software . oceanography . open data . open source scientific software . physics . random walk processes . random walks . science . spatial statistics . state-space models . statistical dependence . statistics . stochastic algorithms . stochastics . time series

  Aug 11.2016
• “Holy crap – an actual book!”

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . Buckminster Fuller . business . citizen science . citizenship . civilization . complex systems . confirmation bias . data science . data streams . deep recurrent neural networks . denial . economics . education . engineering . ethics . evidence . Internet . investing . life purpose . machine learning . mathematical publishing . mathematics . mathematics education . maths . moral leadership . multivariate statistics . numerical software . numerics . obfuscating data . organizational failures . politics . population biology . prediction . prediction markets . privacy . quantitative biology . quantitative ecology . rationality . reason . reasonableness . rhetoric . risk . Schnabel census . smart data . sociology . statistical dependence . statistics . the right to be and act stupid . the right to know . the value of financial assets . transparency . UU Humanists

  Aug 10.2016
• Bayesian blocks via PELT in R

  American Statistical Association . AMETSOC . anomaly detection . astrophysics . Cauchy distribution . changepoint detection . engineering . geophysics . multivariate statistics . numerical analysis . numerical software . numerics . oceanography . population biology . population dynamics . Python 3 . quantitative biology . quantitative ecology . R . Scargle . spatial statistics . square wave approximation . statistics . stepwise approximation . time series . Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

  Aug 1.2016
• JASA demands code and data be supplied as a condition of publication

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Statistical Association . citizen science . engineering . ethics . evidence . new forms of scientific peer review . numerical software . planning . rationality . reasonableness . resiliency . science . statistics . stochastic algorithms . testing . the right to know

  Jul 16.2016
• data.table

  big data . data science . engineering . numerical analysis . numerical software . numerics . open source scientific software . R . smart data . statistics

  Jun 15.2016
• On Smart Data

  Akaike Information Criterion . Bayes . Bayesian . Bayesian inversion . big data . bigmemory package for R . changepoint detection . data science . data streams . dlm package . dynamic generalized linear models . dynamic linear models . dynamical systems . Generalize Additive Models . generalized linear models . information theoretic statistics . Kalman filter . linear algebra . logistic regression . machine learning . Markov Chain Monte Carlo . mathematics . mathematics education . maths . maximum likelihood . MCMC . Monte Carlo Statistical Methods . multivariate statistics . numerical analysis . numerical software . numerics . quantitative biology . quantitative ecology . rationality . reasonableness . sampling . smart data . state-space models . statistical dependence . statistics . the right to know . time series

  Jun 11.2016
• Six cases of models

  AMETSOC . anemic data . Anthropocene . astrophysics . Bayesian . Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project . BEST . carbon dioxide . climate . climate change . climate data . climate disruption . climate models . dlm package . dynamic linear models . dynamical systems . environment . fossil fuels . geophysics . Giovanni Petris . global warming . greenhouse gases . Hyper Anthropocene . information theoretic statistics . maths . maximum likelihood . meteorology . model comparison . numerical software . Patrizia Campagnoli . Rauch-Tung-Striebel . Sonia Petrone . state-space models . stochastic algorithms . stochastic search . SVD . time series

  Jun 6.2016
• Phytoplankton-delineated oceanic eddies near Antarctica

  AMETSOC . Antarctica . Arctic . bacteria . Carbon Cycle . complex systems . differential equations . diffusion . diffusion processes . dynamic linear models . dynamical systems . Emily Shuckburgh . environment . fluid dynamics . geophysics . GLMs . John Marshall . marine biology . Mathematics and Climate Research Network . NASA . numerical analysis . numerical software . oceanic eddies . oceanography . physics . phytoplankton . science . thermohaline circulation . WHOI . Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

  Feb 10.2016
• high dimension Metropolis-Hastings algorithms

  Bayes . Bayesian . Bayesian inversion . boosting . chance . Christian Robert . computation . ensembles . Gibbs Sampling . James Spall . Jerome Friedman . Markov Chain Monte Carlo . mathematics . maths . MCMC . Monte Carlo Statistical Methods . multivariate statistics . numerical software . numerics . optimization . reasonableness . Robert Schapire . SPSA . state-space models . statistics . stochastic algorithms . stochastic search . stochastics . Yoav Freund

  Feb 6.2016
• Generating supports for classification rules in black box regression models

  approximate Bayesian computation . Bayes . Bayesian . Bayesian inversion . generalized linear models . machine learning . numerical analysis . numerical software . probabilistic programming . rationality . reasonableness . state-space models . statistics . stochastic algorithms . stochastic search . stochastics . support of black boxes

  Jan 25.2016
• November Hottest Ever, and Christmas Likely To bring Record Warmth in The East (Dan’s Wild Wild Science Journal; AGU Blogosphere)

  AMETSOC . capricious gods . climate . climate models . Dan Satterfield . differential equations . diffusion processes . dynamical systems . ensembles . ENSO . environment . forecasting . geophysics . Hyper Anthropocene . meteorology . NCAR . NOAA . numerical software . physics . science . the right to know . wave equations

  Dec 14.2015
• “1D Wave with Delta Potential and Triangle Initial Position” (Jeff Galkowski, Stanford)

  computation . engineering . Jeff Galkowski . mathematics . maths . McGill University . numerical analysis . numerical software . physics . proud dad . quantum . scattering . science . Stanford University . the right to know . University of California Berkeley . University of Rochester . wave equations . waves

  Dec 1.2015
• Southern Oscillation (SOI) correlated with Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR)

  AMETSOC . bifurcations . carbon dioxide . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate models . Dan Satterfield . differential equations . dynamic linear models . dynamical systems . ENSO . environment . forecasting . generalized linear models . geophysics . global warming . greenhouse gases . IPCC . Mathematica . mathematics . maths . meteorology . NCAR . NOAA . numerical software . oceanography . open data . physics . population biology . Principles of Planetary Climate . rationality . reasonableness . science . Spaceship Earth . state-space models . thermodynamics . time series

  Nov 12.2015
• Solar array with cloud predicting technology launched in WA

  adaptation . Anthropocene . carbon dioxide . citizenship . civilization . clean disruption . climate . climate change . climate disruption . conservation . consumption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . dynamic linear models . efficiency . energy . energy reduction . energy utilities . engineering . environment . ethics . forecasting . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . investment in wind and solar energy . Kalman filter . mathematics . maths . meteorology . microgrids . mitigation . NCAR . numerical software . optimization . physics . prediction . probabilistic programming . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . solar power . stochastics . sustainability . time series

  Aug 31.2015
• Your future: Antarctica, in detail

  Antarctica . Anthropocene . bridge to nowhere . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate zombies . disingenuity . ecology . ensembles . forecasting . geophysics . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . IPCC . Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory . LBNL . living shorelines . mathematics . mathematics education . maths . mesh models . meteorology . multivariate statistics . numerical software . optimization . physics . rationality . reasonableness . risk . science . science education . sea level rise . spatial statistics . state-space models . statistics . stochastic algorithms . stochastics . supercomputers . temporal myopia . the right to know . thermodynamics . time series . University of California Berkeley . WAIS

  Aug 18.2015
• Comprehensive and compact tutorial on Petris’ DLM package in R; with an update about Helske’s KFAS

  Bayes . Bayesian . dynamic linear models . dynamical systems . forecasting . Kalman filter . mathematics . maths . multivariate statistics . numerical software . open source scientific software . prediction . R . Rauch-Tung-Striebel . state-space models . statistics . stochastic algorithms . SVD . time series

  Jul 29.2015