Business intelligence data scientist, marketer & consultant; former viral immunologist; occasional lecturer; Telecaster, modular synth & Jaffa Cake enthusiast
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined October 2017
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Chris Bow retweeted
Job alert 🚨 We’re looking for someone to join the @CodeBaseEDI team as the Digital Community and Events manager.
More info 👇🏽👇🏻👇🏾
thisiscodebase.com/jobs-1/20…
Chris Bow retweeted
When setting targets, try to prove Goodhart's Law wrong.
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At #rstatsnyc, @drob (@heap) will introduce his widyr package, which fits pairwise correlations, clustering, and dimensionality reduction into the #tidyverse by making the matrix operations invisible to the user.
Join us Aug 12-15! Visit rstats.ai/nyr/.
#rstats
Chris Bow retweeted
Behold the world's shortest lecture on #statistics and everything that is wrong with how people approach it:
42.
#statistics #rstats #DataScience #analytics
Welcome to statistics, where The Answer is p = 0.042 but you don't know what the question was.
Chris Bow retweeted
Why #data wrangling is 10% skill, 90% anger management...
#DataScience #statistics #rstats #AI #analytics
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Chris Bow retweeted
We're looking for 2 enthusiastic & talented people to join our team:
🌟A Head of Business Development to drive positive economic change in Scotland.
🌟A Programme Administrator to ensure the efficient operation of our Data Skills for Work programme
thedatalab.com/jobs/
Chris Bow retweeted
Need something to read while in quarantine?
A lot of tutorials, articles, and function references are now at tidymodels.org.
tidyverse.org/blog/2020/04/t…
@apreshill is the MVP; we could not have done it without her.
#rstats
Chris Bow retweeted
I'm thrilled to finally announce that {slider} is officially on CRAN! 🎉
{slider} is a #rstats 📦 for extending the idea of {purrr} to rolling windows, allowing you to compute moving averages, rolling regressions, or any other custom window function!
tidyverse.org/blog/2020/02/s…
Chris Bow retweeted
New {rvest} vignette has just been published for those just starting on the wonderful world of web-scraping. rvest.tidyverse.org/articles…
Chris Bow retweeted
Welcome back to work to many of you!
We've big plans for The Data Lab team for 2020 starting now! Interested in joining our journey? The closing date is the 10th!
Snr Solution Architect x2
Business Develop Exec
Marketing, Comm & Events Officer
thedatalab.com/jobs/
Chris Bow retweeted
If you’re not on our mailing list (or just haven’t checked your emails yet!), we’ve announced our date for #DATAScotland 2020! Save the date for Friday 18th September - hope to see you there #tech #data #DataScience – at Glasgow, Scotland
Chris Bow retweeted
**new blog post ✍️**
overfitting: a guided tour 🚌
i present some intuition about overfitting, explain why it matters for both prediction and inference, and show why sample splitting is so important #statstwitter #DataScience
alexpghayes.com/blog/overfit…
Chris Bow retweeted
Calling #data crew in #Scotland 📊🏴 📢
Want to use your data skills for social change? 😊
@DataKindUK are looking to launch charity Office Hours service in Edinburgh 🙌 & will be hosting a training session for potential volunteers on 28 Nov. Find out more bit.ly/dk_training
Chris Bow retweeted
Come join us on Thursday to find out about the great stuff we're doing at @Sustainably.
eventbrite.co.uk/e/become-a-…
#fintech #Edinburgh #techforgood #impact #OpenBanking #WeWorkEdinburgh
Chris Bow retweeted
We're excited to announce that DAC is cited as a Contender in The @Forrester Wave™: Performance Marketing Agencies, Q3 2019!🎉 Thank you to our entire team, clients, & partners, we couldn't have done it without you. See the link below to learn more ⬇️
hubs.ly/H0kQHS50
Chris Bow retweeted
gargle is a new package to take some of the pain out of working with Google APIs from #rstats. It’s already used in googledrive and bigrquery.
tidyverse.org/articles/2019/…
Chris Bow retweeted
Do you want to make beautiful plots w/ ggplot2? Check out
@CedScherer's step-by-step walkthrough of how they evolved "a dreary gray boxplot to a self-explanatory, colorful visualization"! #rstats
cedricscherer.netlify.com/20…
Chris Bow retweeted
There are a number of open positions within The Data Lab that will be closing soon including;
~ Product Manager – DDI Skills Gateway
~ Project Delivery Manager – DDI Skills Gateway
Check out the full details below;
thedatalab.com/jobs/