general teaching EFFICIENCY vs. EFFECTIVENESS 8 Sep 201910 Jul 2020 If you’re efficient, you’re doing it the wrong way. The right way is the hard way...every word, every line, every take, every edit, every casting. That’s my way of life.…
Uncategorized E-mail is fine, but just don’t do *THIS* thing 20 Mar 2021 At many times, and in many ways, reports of the death of e-mail have been greatly exaggerated. Since the dawn of e-mail, many a self-styled "disruptor" has declared that some…
Uncategorized Wait, wait…so who the heck is “Ma Yun?” 12 Mar 202117 Mar 2021 In my on-campus courses, approximately 80% of the students are Chinese. For context, perhaps half of that cohort did their undergraduate degrees in China, and the other half came to…
Uncategorized One for the bag of tricks: Time-boxing student presentations 10 Mar 2021 In so many ways, teaching is reminiscent of being a platoon leader. In both cases, you're it. You're the one standing in front of the formation. Roughly 40 to 50…
Uncategorized High Leverage Points in Simple Linear Regression 1 Feb 20211 Feb 2021 by Xiangyu Wangwith Greg Page Leverage in Simple Linear Regression: Overview In this article, we will discuss high leverage points in simple linear regression (SLR). Simply put, high leverage points…
Uncategorized Exploring the World of Hexagonal Bin Plots 15 Jan 202115 Jan 2021 by Xiangyu Wangwith Greg Page For understanding the relationship between two numeric variables, scatterplots are a valuable tool. They can inform us about the correlations (positive or negative) and the…
general teaching One simple organizational technique: For them and for you 2 Jan 2021 Before I started up full-time here at BU MET, I did the "adjunct shuffle", in addition to quite a bit of tutoring, in order to pay my bills each month.…
Uncategorized No camera? No problem. (Why I Don’t require webcams for remote learners) 1 Jan 20211 Jan 2021 Midway through Spring semester 2020, in response to the rapidly-spreading and still mysterious Covid-19, we abruptly switched our mode of instruction for our traditional, face-to-face classes into an online-only format.…
Guest Articles The ROC Curve: An Overview 21 Dec 2020 The ROC Curve: An Overview by Jiawen Huangwith Greg Page Background: True Positive Rate and False Positive Rate In classification modeling, a true positive is defined as a record whose…
Uncategorized Hard-voting and Soft-voting classification ensembles: An introduction 13 Dec 202013 Dec 2020 by Qiuyue Wangwith Greg Page Background: Classifying the Quality of Red Wine This article aims to introduce the reader to two important machine learning methodologies: the Hard-Voting Classification Ensemble and…
Guest Articles A Classification model showdown at the Huang-Page Buffet 5 Dec 20205 Dec 2020 by Jiawen Huang with Greg Page Background: Customer Satisfaction at the Huang-Page International Super Buffet We recently opened the Huang-Page International Super Buffet (HP Buffet) in a location just north…
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