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Blas M. Benito, PhD
Blas M. Benito, PhD
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Analyzing Epidemiological Time Series With The R Package {distantia}
Tutorial on the applications of the R package {distantia} to the analysis of epidemiological time series.
Blas M. Benito
Last updated on Feb 19, 2025
17 min read
Coding a Minimalistic Dynamic Time Warping Library with R
Tutorial on how to implement dynamic time warping in R
Blas M. Benito
Last updated on Jan 25, 2025
26 min read
A Gentle Intro to Dynamic Time Warping
Brief introduction to Dynamic Time Warping with a conceptual step-by-step break down.
Blas M. Benito
Last updated on Jan 25, 2025
8 min read
My Reading List: Data Science
Live post with a curated list of high-quality data science posts and videos I found enlightening.
Blas M. Benito
Last updated on Jan 25, 2025
5 min read
Mapping Categorical Predictors to Numeric With Target Encoding
Target encoding is commonly used to map categorical variables to numeric with the objective of facilitating exploratory data analysis and machine learning modeling. This post covers the basics of this method, and explains how and when to use it.
Blas M. Benito
Last updated on Jan 25, 2025
22 min read
Everything You Don't Need to Know About Variance Inflation Factors
Deep explanation of what Variance Inflation Factors (VIF) are, how they work, what they really mean, and how they are used to manage multicollinearity in linear models.
Blas M. Benito
Last updated on Jan 25, 2025
16 min read
Multicollinearity Hinders Model Interpretability
In this post, I delve into the intricacies of model interpretation under the influence of multicollinearity, and use R and a toy data set to demonstrate how this phenomenon impacts both linear and machine learning models.
Blas M. Benito
Last updated on Jan 25, 2025
14 min read
Designing R Functions to Compute Betadiversity Indices
Brief tutorial on writing R functions to compute betadiversity scores
Blas M. Benito
Last updated on Jan 25, 2025
12 min read
Setup of a Shared Folder in a Home Cluster
Notes on how to configure a shared folder for a beowulf home cluster
Blas M. Benito
Last updated on Jan 25, 2025
8 min read
Parallelized Loops with R
Tutorial on how to parallelize for loops in R.
Blas M. Benito
Last updated on Jan 25, 2025
19 min read
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