Nth-Iteration

Hi all,

We recently had a number of papers (conditionally) accepted at various places, so we thought it would be nice to share some of the pre-prints here:

• We have been honored to participate anniversary issue of JAISE: Find a preprint here.
• Lianne her work on streaming approximations for multi-level models was accepted for publication at Psychometrika. Find a pre-print here.
• We are happy that some of our work on personalizing medical treatments was conditionally accepted at JBI. Find a pre-print here.
• Finally, we update our RStorm package: check it out here.

Thanks!

Hi all,

The paper by Robin van Emden describing the package “contextual” is now available on ArXiv: see http://arxiv.org/abs/1811.01926.

Cheers!

 

Hi all,

Just a few short updates:

• The book “Hallo Wereld, Hallo Computer” is now available. You can order it here. (or here, or here).
• Robin created a major update of the [R] package contextual: you can find it at our lab’s GitHub: https://github.com/Nth-iteration-labs/contextual. The manuscript describing the package has just been submitted to the journal of statistical software.
• Lianne has recently submitted revisions of her work on streaming / online estimation of multi-level models to Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, and to Psychometrika. Both are in a second round of revisions, so we hope to be able to share a pre-print soon!

That’s it for now. We have some more things coming up soon; grant proposal and a number of papers in review that we would like to share as soon as possible. However, we need some patience.

Finally, note that we are contributing to Den Bosch Data Week; make sure to attend!

I am proud to announce the upcoming release of my new book: “Hallo Wereld, Hallo Computer: Wat iedereen zou moeten weten over digitale technologie” (and yes, sorry, that’s in Dutch…).

Here is what it looks like:

And here is what its about:

“Een manager die geen verstand heeft van financiën en zijn eigen balans niet kan lezen moet een MBA doen, krijgt een cursus of wordt ontslagen. Maar als het om technologie, ICT, websites of apps gaat, kan hij het afdoen met ‘daar gaat ICT over’.

Hi all,

We just uploaded a new version of our paper on streaming bandit. Check it out here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.06700

Hi all,

At the Jheronimus academy of data science we structure our research into several labs (as you might know the computational personalization lab is just one of them). We now have a small webpage up presenting also the other labs: https://www.jads.nl/dsc-den-bosch.html

Cheers!

Hi all,

We are very happy to announce that Lingjie Shen just arrived at the lab! We will give her a warm welcome.

Also, we are happy that the paper by Jules Kruijswijk, Robin van Emden, Petri Parvinen, en Maurits Kaptein was accepted for publication at JSS. It will take some time before the paper will appear and we will post it on Arxiv shortly, but for now we are sharing a pre-print here.

Cheers!

Hi all,

Sorry, it has been a bit quiet due to travels and summer etc., but we have a number of things to share:

– Together with Dean Eckles we commented on the extremely interesting article “Optimal treatment allocations in space and time for on‐line control of an emerging infectious disease”; see: https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rssc.12266 for the paper and the discussion.
– We contributed to the article “Long-term Effects of Telemonitoring on Healthcare Usage in Patients with Heart Failure or COPD” which is currently under review. A preprint can be found here: http://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.10981
– We are proud to announce that lab member Xynthia Kavelaars was award an NWO research talent grant! See: https://www.nwo.nl/en/news-and-events/news/2018/06/28-young-researchers-to-receive-research-talent-funding.html
– Robin is well-underway with developing his new offline bandit evaluation [R] package. It starting to be really cool! So, check it out at: https://github.com/Nth-iteration-labs/contextual and provide Robin with any feedback you might have!
– Together with Prof. Edwin van den Heuvel we are working on a new statistics text book called “Statistics for Data Scientists” which will be published by Springer early 2019. We are already using a draft version of the book in a course we are teaching and we want to make the course interactive: we are experimenting with replacing the lectures by video lectures. For some examples see: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYveUfYPgAn5gArrgVI4w7g

I guess that’s it for now!

Cheers,

Maurits

Hi!

One of our lab members (Florian) just published a great paper on Bayes Factors in Psychometrika! The full details can be found at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11336-018-9615-z. You can download an author’s copy here.

Cheers,

Maurits

Hi all,

Last week I gave an overview of some of the work from our lab (or at least, our theoretical thinking) at IKNL (see https://www.iknl.nl). The overview might be interesting to others as well, so I am posting the slides here. Let me know if you have any questions!

Maurits