ML

Table vs graph

Shall I display my data using a table or a graph? The usual answer is: it depends. Mostly, it depends on who the audience is and how the data will be used.

Outliers: Which prior are you using?

This post is concerned with a ubiquitous problem of outliers. They are infamous for degrading the performance of many models/algorithms. As a result, ongoing attempts try to accommodate them by deriving robust estimators.