Joshua Loong

UWaterloo grad | Data Scientist | Interested in the ways we can use data and technology for social impact

[Joshua Loong @jtloong]

Been using R more lately and wanted to share something I've discovered is much easier compared to Python: testing statistical assumptions. Enjoy! #rstats

https://t.co/cj2nw3zbRy

[Joshua Loong @jtloong]

Another year, another stack of books. This is my yearly tradition of creating a summary of my reading complete with stats and some recommendations broken down by category. Hope you enjoy it!

https://t.co/O1UskP9ktI

[Sarah Drasner @sarah_edo]

When your weekend coding projects are held up by scope creep, you really only have yourself to blame 🤦🏻‍♀️

[Joshua Loong @jtloong]

@danjlurie I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[Joshua Loong @jtloong]

@cmusician I'm glad to help! Definitely have a dig through that spreadsheet. I'm sure you'll find other things that may be of interest to your group 😊

[Joshua Loong @jtloong]

@cmusician You'll find operation costs on sheet 40, with total operating transit cost in cell T37 at $385,568

This puts the cost at around $25.54 per capita, given a pop of 15,096 in the latest Census. This is much lower than many of the cities discussed in the post.

Hope that helps!

[Joshua Loong @jtloong]

@cmusician Great question. This link has the Financial Information Returns of every municipality in Ontario in 2017 and if you go down to "Kenora C" you can download all of the standard accounting statements for that year. https://t.co/jOVlfCaS1r

[Joshua Loong @jtloong]

New year, new blog post! Playing around with my Goodreads data to create a gigantic book cover collage of all the books I've read. https://t.co/YPd4Q9VfYJ

[Emma McIntosh @EmmaMci]

BREAKING: The Supreme Court of Canada has reached a decision in the #Redwater case. When energy companies go bankrupt, the cleanup of their old oil and gas wells must take priority over paying off creditors, the court found. Sides with Alberta Energy Regulator. Story soon.

[Steven White @notstevenwhite]

The idea that people with socially liberal but economically conservative views are somehow underrepresented in American politics is not at all supported by actual public opinion data https://t.co/57hMaTBwiE

[Kim Campbell @AKimCampbell]

Amused at suggestions that a RT of a tweet objecting to Trumpian immigration views being expressed by a Cdn politician makes me “partisan”. I have only ever belonged to one national party in Csnads- the Progressive Conservative Party, which no longer exists. ...1

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

Here's a useful counterintuitive fact: one 18 inch pizza has more 'pizza' than two 12 inch pizzas

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

The longest straw you can drink from is approximately 10.3 m (33.8 ft) long

[Connor Shorten @CShorten30]

Decent results generating basketball shoes with the DCGAN architecture, check it out! https://t.co/KyGGqQmw44 #100DaysOfMLCode

[Nathan Yau @flowingdata]

Ages in Congress, from the 1st to the 115th

[vicki @vboykis]

🙏 If you are writing documentation, please, for the love of sanity, include specific examples of things you can do with your code. 🙏

[Joshua Loong @jtloong]

So many questions to ask Google in a hearing and someone asks why his staff's wikipedia edits aren't going through 🤦‍♂️

[Joshua Loong @jtloong]

Also this rant was great:

[Joshua Loong @jtloong]

Fascinating breakdown on Deepmind's presentation at CASP13 https://t.co/xNwUt60nDB