While Model Trains

Read data blog posts.
Carefully handpicked.
Presented 3 at a time.

"Just get some labelled data"

Neal Lathia

"This is just a small ode to the folks who spend countless hours on the toil that is 'just' getting some labelled data."

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Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive?

Colin Morris

A fascinating visual essay that utilizes the Lempel-Ziv algorithm (which powers GIFs, PNGs, and most archive formats) to analyze if pop songs are becoming more repetitive.

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Markov Chains

Victor Powell and Lewis Lehe

A fascinating explanation of Markov Chains with interactive simulations.

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