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trthatcher

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About trthatcher

Data scientist

github.com/trthatcher

Recent public activity

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    Comment #30047515

    While I'm not clear why you would want to go back to an undergrad given your education, I would look for programs with names like "Computational Mathematics" or "Computational Scie…

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    Comment #29306939

    I quit my job in May 2019... before the pandemic started. I was working as a senior data analyst at an insurance company in Canada. The work was boring, thankless and pretty exhaus…

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    Comment #23044502

    Data Scientist | Equitable Life of Canada ( https://www.equitable.ca ) | Waterloo, ON | Full-time | Onsite or Remote (within South-Western Ontario) Equitable Life is a small mutual…

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    Comment #22470285

    Location: Toronto, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to Relocate: Depends, open to discussion Technologies: Python, Julia, some JavaScript, SQL Résumé/CV: https://thatcher.dev/resume.pdf …

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    Comment #21630983

    Excel is a piece of software that I would absolutely not hesitate to pay for... but I'm unfortunately stuck with LibreOffice. I used to work in an insurance company on an actuarial…

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    Leisure Time Spent Sitting in Relation to Total Mortality (US Adults)

    The obesity epidemic is attributed in part to reduced physical activity. Evidence supports that reducing time spent sitting, regardless of activity, may improve the metabolic conse…

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    Comment #7000399

    You have the right idea. You're assuming an underlying model for the data. You have a test statistic( that estimates a model parameter) and you have a hypothesis regarding a parame…

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    Comment #6882879

    I don't think it will be a problem to do both. It doesn't take long to learn Julia well enough to write a Julia package that others will use. For me, that was about 3 weeks @ 10-15…