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Leon Chlon

Leon Chlon

TL;DR Cointegration For Time Series Analysis

“Correlation is not causation” is seen by many as the statistician’s hippocratic oath, which is why Granger coined the term “spurious…

Jun 7

TL;DR Cointegration For Time Series Analysis

Jun 7

Leon Chlon

Tl;dr Approximate Inference methods made easy

“MCMC vs VI” is no longer a discussion about your favourite Roman numeral. If you share my trepidation for model performance in the face of…

Sep 5, 2023

Tl;dr Approximate Inference methods made easy

Sep 5, 2023

Leon Chlon

3 science-backed things I did one hour before my technical interviews that helped me land the job.

Your palms are sweaty, knees weak arms are heavy; Eminem’s words paint a picture of what it feels like as that video call starts ringing…

Oct 23, 2020

3 science-backed things I did one hour before my technical interviews that helped me land the job.

Oct 23, 2020

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Towards Data Science

The Data Science Interview Blueprint

After my Data Science Manager offer with Deliveroo was rescinded a few months after I was preparing to leave my cosy consultancy job, and…

Aug 3, 2020

The Data Science Interview Blueprint

Aug 3, 2020

Leon Chlon

5 ways Muay Thai helped me survive Management Consulting.

I turn up to my first client engagement thousands of miles away from home wearing a crisp new suit; it’s also my birthday. It’s 7pm and…

Jun 24, 2020

5 ways Muay Thai helped me survive Management Consulting.

Jun 24, 2020

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Towards Data Science

tl;dr Structural Causal Models (DAGs) Made Easy

“Smoking is associated with cancer” vs “Smoking causes cancer”, which one is more likely to swing public sentiment?

Apr 21, 2020

tl;dr Structural Causal Models (DAGs) Made Easy

Apr 21, 2020

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Towards Data Science

What learning unsupervised word embeddings across 51,000 journal articles can tell us about…

In July 2019, a remarkable article was published by a former material physics colleague of mine around discovering new science from older…

Apr 16, 2020

What learning unsupervised word embeddings across 51,000 journal articles can tell us about…

Apr 16, 2020

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Towards Data Science

tl;dr: Dirichlet Process Gaussian Mixture Models made easy.

Clustering is the bane of a data scientist’s life. How many of us have spent many a Sunday evening looking upon a fresh data-set with…

Feb 11, 2020

tl;dr: Dirichlet Process Gaussian Mixture Models made easy.

Feb 11, 2020

Leon Chlon
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Towards Data Science

tl;dr: How having more SWAG can make for safer AI drivers.

Bayesian deep learning can help capture uncertainty properties typically overlooked by conventional methods. By learning with SWAG, we …

Jan 28, 2020

tl;dr: How having more SWAG can make for safer AI drivers.

Jan 28, 2020

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Towards Data Science

tl;dr: Gaussian Process Bayesian Optimization

The conundrum of the data scientist: we’ve cleaned the data, made the modeling assumptions and eagerly booted up sklearn; all that stands…

Jan 14, 2020

tl;dr: Gaussian Process Bayesian Optimization

Jan 14, 2020

Leon Chlon

Leon Chlon

Research Data Scientist — Facebook; Past: McKinsey Analytics Consultant | Harvard Medical School Postdoc | University of Cambridge PhD, MPhil

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