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The Art of Borrowing Statistical Strength

Statistics
Visualisation
Forcasting
It’s one of the fundamental tasks for anyone starting a new project in data science, what does my data show? There’s two approaches, look at relationships between variables…
Aug 24, 2025
Vincent Alexander Croft

The Mathematics of Dungeon Crawls: Pursuit-Evasion Puzzle

Animation
Algorithms
History
Imagine a policeman standing at the central junction of a Y-shaped underground labyrinth, with three identical corridors radiating out like the arms of a fork. A crafty…
Jun 18, 2025
Vincent Alexander Croft

Forecasting with a Sentiment-Based Signal

HFT
Algorithms
Forcasting
Forecasting how systems such as the load on Wikipedias servers, powergrid usage or financial markets will react in the future based on non-traditional data like text and…
Jun 2, 2025
Vincent Alexander Croft

From Statistical Curiosity to Execution Edge

HFT
Algorithms
Statistics
Quantitative research starts the same way any scientific study does: raw observations and the idea that a structure lies beneath the noise. The first step is to boil these…
May 22, 2025
Vincent Alexander Croft

A primer on “the Visual Display of Quantative Information” - in ROOT

Computing
Visualisation"
ROOT
Orriginally published in 1983, The Visual Display of Quantative Information is a triste on data visualisation. Focusing on the design of plots, graphics, and display rather…
Nov 28, 2021
Vincent Alexander Croft

Adventures in Torch and Deep Art

GPU
Torch
Photography
Deep Learning
Recently I made a hanging canvas made for my Mother in law based on the idea of deep style transfer.
Nov 11, 2018
Vincent Croft

A Tauists Hunt For Higgles (part one)

Higgs Mechanism
Outreach
Animation
Theory
We begin with an explanation of nomenclature; a description of an evolution of grammar. When new terms become established and their names become more common place, the…
Sep 18, 2018
Vincent Croft

High Energy Statistics

Statistics
Computing
History
Before I begin apparently this word has become a piece of high energy physics jargon. However its usage has become so ingrained in everything I do. High statistics = lots of…
Jun 16, 2018
Vincent Croft
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