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Author: Connor M French
How to apply machine learning and deep learning methods to audio analysis
While much of the writing and literature on deep learning concerns computer vision and natural language processing (NLP), audio analysis — a field that includes automatic speech recognition (ASR), digital signal processing, …
A judge said police can search the DNA of 1 million Americans without their consent. What’s next?
For the first time, a state judge has forced a public genealogy site, GEDmatch, to allow police to search its entire database of DNA profiles. A detective wanted to find …
Topic choice works against black NIH applicants
In 2011, a study led by economist Donna Ginther of the University of Kansas in Lawrence found that black applicants were significantly less likely than white applicants to be funded …
Quickstart Guide to R Package Building
Want to make your research more reproducible? Try housing it within an R package! While R packages are typically used to house broadly applicable functions for defined use-cases, they offer …
Preparing Students to Work as Curators, Thanks to New Mellon Foundation Grant
The Graduate Center’s Ph.D. Program in Art History was awarded a grant of $650,000 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the training of future curators and other museum …
A Matter of Time: A Brief History of Time Series in R and Beyond | Meetup
About the Talk: Time series are everywhere, and fundamentally different than all other data. To effectively work with these series demands highly specialized tools–as dates, times, notation, calendars, time zones, …
We are all complicit in harassment and abuse
To combat bad behaviour, researchers must collectively create ways to take responsibility, says Virginia Valian… The vast majority of scholars will never have crossed paths with Epstein, but many of …
Finding Your Way To R
Finding Your Way To R We think R is a great place to start your data science journey because it is an environment designed for data science. R is not …
PDIG Training Grant Spotlight: Connor French
There are a lot of insects in the world. Like a lot a lot. Recent estimates put the number of insect species at a whopping 5.5 million. Only about a …
