Making your work more error-proof using peer scrutiny — Peer review is an important part of any creative activity. It is used in research — both inside and outside academia — to ensure the correctness of results, adherence to the scientific method and quality of output. In engineering it is used to provide outside scrutiny and to catch costly…

A concise review of the major approaches. — The question of what event caused another, or what brought about a certain change in a phenomenon, is a common one. Examples include whether a drug caused an improvement in some medical condition (versus the placebo effect, additional hospital visits, etc.), tracking down the cause for a malfunction in an…

A review of notable literature on the topic — Word embedding — the mapping of words into numerical vector spaces — has proved to be an incredibly important method for natural language processing (NLP) tasks in recent years, enabling various machine learning models that rely on vector representation as input to enjoy richer representations of text input. These representations…

A practical guide to packaging Python code — Say you have a nice piece of Python code; a couple of small related functions, or perhaps even a medium-sized module with a few hundred lines of code. …

A review of the concept and types of stationarity — This post is meant to provide a concise but comprehensive overview of the concept of stationarity and of the different types of stationarity defined in academic literature dealing with time series analysis. Future posts will aim to provide similarly concise overviews of detection of non-stationarity in time series data and…