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.
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).
Thanks for this! I've been going crazy for months that Twitter threads and replies are totally broken if you are logged out (which I always am since deleting my account in December). And now Nitter has led me to LibRedirect[1] which not only automatically redirects Twitter links but also lots of other common links like TikTok.
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.
Do you worry that you risk introducing bias into your interview process with this sort of unstructured questioning? There is quite a bit of research [1] demonstrating that structured and standardized interviews across candidates are one of the most crucial ways of preventing various types of bias, conscious or not.
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!
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!
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.
It’s out of date at this point, but I plotted the Global Health Security Index against covid death rates back in November if you’d like to get a sense of the relationship: https://twitter.com/kforeman/status/1331035362676785152
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At the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) we do cutting-edge data science to help improve the world's health. We're a team of 400 data scientists, researchers, engineers, epidemiologists, physicians, and more working to help places like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, NGOs, ministries of health around the world, and others make the best decisions about how to invest resources to maximize global health. Read more about why the Gates Foundation recently invested nearly $300M in us here: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Press-Releases/...
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!
IHME is 250 person independent research institute affiliated with the University of Washington, primarily focused on global health research and statistics.
I'm looking for data scientists / researchers / devs / architects for a cool project we're working on that aims to simulate the health of the entire world. Experience with distributed computing a must, as this is a massively parallel task. We've also got openings for JS devs, DBAs, and more.
We've got a lot of fun toys to play with like a 20k core cluster and all the latest Spark gizmos, plus you get to work on projects that have proven impact on the world.
Contact me at kfor at uw dot edu if you're interested.
Agreed. I would use latex for everything but I need to work with collaborators who are only used to writing in Word with track changes. Something that would allow me to write in latex then still share for editing with less tech savvy people would be wonderful.