My colleague Theo Vos and I have a perspective published recently in PLoS Medicine, Machine learning in population health: Opportunities and threats. It is not long, so you can skim it in seconds, or read it all in just minutes.
It is not directly related to a short film that I enjoyed recently. Maybe indirectly.
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This summer my kids got a gift of a somewhat boring board game, where players were charged with tracing through a jumble of lines to find out what creature got to eat what dessert. The name escapes me now, and I escaped taking the game home, too.
But it was not all bad—the mechanics of the game made me google “permutation game” which came up with a fun puzzle (and annoying interview question; this phrasing is from a website that helps people cram for job interviews):
Alice and Bob play the following game:
They choose a permutation of the first numbers to begin with.
They play alternately and Alice plays first.
In a turn, they can remove any one remaining number from the permutation.
The game ends when the remaining numbers form an increasing sequence. The person who played the last turn (after which the sequence becomes increasing) wins the game.
Assuming both play optimally, who wins the game?
This game turns out to be kind of fun, at least if you find this sort of thing fun. I also tried a twist where we started with a string of letters, and crossed them off until they make a word.
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https://plot.ly/dash/
https://community.plot.ly/c/dash
https://github.com/plotly/dash
https://plot.ly/dash/getting-started
View at Medium.com
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I’ve got a fun little viz that I need to demo for Important People (IP) in early March [editor’s note: still not done… that deadline was highly optimistic!]. How to do it?
In Python? Sure. In a Jupyter notebook? Maybe. With Matplotlib? Probably not… at least I better have a look at the state of the alternatives.
Did I mention that it is essential for this viz to be *interactive*? It needs to allow the Important People to explore the predictions of some ML model, or at least allow me to explore them while they call out how to explore.
Years ago, I attempted to designate a particular plot the “hello, world” of data viz. Remember that? I think we should extend it to a hello world of interactive data viz. Maybe just choosing the number of digits is enough. Or should it follow the visual information seeking mantra? But “hello, world” cannot be too complicated.
yhat?
Altair
https://altair-viz.github.io
https://github.com/altair-viz/altair_widgets/blob/master/examples/Iris.ipynb
http://pbpython.com/altair-intro.html
Bokeh
https://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/docs/gallery.html#gallery
https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2015/08/interactive-data-visualization-library-python-bokeh/
Click to access Python_Bokeh_Cheat_Sheet.pdf
https://www.datacamp.com/courses/interactive-data-visualization-with-bokeh/
https://www.datacamp.com/community/blog/bokeh-cheat-sheet-python
https://demo.bokehplots.com/apps/movies
A Dramatic Tour through Python’s Data Visualization Landscape (including ggplot and Altair)
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Thinking about this since I saw a gentrification talk at CSSS last week [editor’s note: more like a year ago]. Also thinking about engaging demo material for vivarium. Here are some recent links:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.03213
http://nifty.stanford.edu/2014/mccown-schelling-model-segregation/
http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/15/1/6.html
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The Edward library http://edwardlib.org/ has made the modeling approach of G.E.P. Box sound appealing to me. Here is some reading on it:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1266570?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1266125?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1266318?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2286841?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2982063?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
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Remember that AI class I’ve been blogging about? It’s got me thinking. Here is a take on what is collaboration that I would not have noticed without the priming from our discussion a couple week’s ago: “In a formulation that was galling to both sociologists and scientists, [Latour] once argued that Louis Pasteur did not just, as is commonly accepted, discover microbes; rather, he collaborated with them.”
From https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/magazine/bruno-latour-post-truth-philosopher-science.html
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From same article as above https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/sdr.1596
Champions
Skeptics
Mystics
Social organizational network as an important factor as well— power mapping with Spectrum of Allies exercise useful?
“[H]aving a technically sound model is not enough to assure widespread and effective use …” — additional elements, such as a champion in a leadership role and clearly defined problem to model help.
A goal that I have not yet attained: finding a keeper-of-the-model in the client organization, who can run additional scenarios.
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I missed it but the recording is high quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8EtCUyLxIE
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Healthy Algorithms 