"Cheating" at Codenames with vector embeddings
Have you ever wondered whether there’s an optimal strategy for the card game Codenames? This post details my quest to find a (near) optimal solution, which is tec...
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Hi, I'm Richard, a data scientist-y person. I like solving interesting, challenging problems in fun, pragmatic ways. I'm currently a Principal Data Scientist at Mesh-AI. Previously, I was the Head of Data & Analytics at what3words, a Data Scientist at Zulzi (predominantly building recommender models), and a consultant at Opti-Num Solutions.
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A/B test analysis with bootstrapping
In this post I’ll give a hands-on walkthrough showing you how to analyse the impact of an A/B test using bootstrap sampling. I’ll also compare this to the traditi...
Intro to bootstrapping for confidence bounds
I’ll show you how to use bootstrapping, a powerful sampling technique which can be used to estimate confidence bounds, p-values and distributions for samples with...