mastodon 4.7.3I work at bol (bol.com) on causal inference, statistics, measurement, recommendations, and machine learning for online advertising ranking and pricing.
Previously, I was assistant professor at Utrecht University, where I founded the ODISSEI Social Data Science team and worked on a broad range of topics in social science, statistics, and computation.
#statistics 📊, #rstats 
, #julialang 
, #python 
, #stan
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So I moved into industry 1.5 months ago, which has meant a proper switch from R to Python (I love both). Here are a few observations for statistics-related stuff in this switch (mainly GLMs, statistical inference, contrasts)
- #polars is really great, I love LazyFrames & streaming millions of rows of parquet files, categorical data, missing data.
- I don't really like using #statsmodels, the interface is clunky and the formula API is unfinished
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My son got a second-hand R/C car today on #kingsday and of course it did not work after we put the batteries in. But secretly I like that a lot because I get to look inside and try to repair it 👨🔧
oh, saw now that that I should tag this with #NoAI