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Entropy Measures Diversity

Editor’s note: this post and the following one are hastily revised blog posts from early in my graduate career. They reflect some simplistic thinking about questions of…
Jun 16, 2022
Phil Chodrow

 

Favorite References for Hypergraph Data Science

This bibliography is a selection of some of the papers that influence (or express) my ways of thinking about the challenges and opportunities in hypergraph network data…
Dec 20, 2022
Phil Chodrow

Information Measures Segregation

Editor’s note: this post and the following one are hastily revised blog posts from early in my graduate career. They reflect some simplistic thinking about questions of…
Jun 16, 2022
Phil Chodrow

 

Interactive Choropleths of Census Data with R

In this short blog post, I’ll illustrate how to acquire and visualize US Census data choropleths using R. Since the last time I worked on spatial data, the R ecosystem…
Jun 19, 2022
Phil Chodrow

 

Learning in Public about Teaching Discrete Math

I can prove that \(f(n) \in O(g(n))\) by definition for functions \(f\) and \(g\) involving polynomials, logarithms, and rational functions.
Apr 25, 2023
Phil Chodrow

 

Learning in Public about Teaching Machine Learning

In Spring ’23, I taught two sections of Middlebury’s course CSCI 0451, Machine Learning. This is an elective in our computer science department which has been taught a…
Apr 25, 2023
Phil Chodrow

 

The Short Story of Bregman Information for Measuring Segregation

This is a post for folks who are interested in some of the most important mathematical properties of Bregman divergences. Bregman divergences offer a flexible platform from…
Jun 24, 2022
Phil Chodrow

 

Turning the Light of Truth: Data Science as a Practice of Resistance

This is the draft of a speech I gave at Middlebury TEDx on the topic of data science and social justice on November 11th, 2023.
Oct 15, 2023
Phil Chodrow
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