Author: Dr. Shirin Glander

In our next MünsteR R-user group meetup on March 5th, 2018 Frank Rühle will talk about bioinformatics and how to analyse genome data. You can RSVP here: http://meetu.ps/e/DDY1B/w54bW/f Next-Generation sequencing...continue reading.

These are my sketchnotes for Sam Charrington’s podcast This Week in Machine Learning and AI about Learning State Representations with Yael Niv: https://twimlai.com/twiml-talk-92-learning-state-representations-yael-niv/ Sketchnotes from TWiMLAI talk #…continue reading.

The plumber package for R makes it easy to expose existing R code as a webservice via an API (https://www.rplumber.io/, Trestle Technology, LLC 2017). You take an existing R script...continue reading.

These are my sketchnotes for Sam Charrington’s podcast This Week in Machine Learning and AI about Philosophy of Intelligence with Matthew Crosby: https://twimlai.com/twiml-talk-92-learning-state-representations-yael-niv/ Sketchnotes from TWiMLAI talk…continue reading.

I have written another blogpost about Looking beyond accuracy to improve trust in machine learning at my company codecentric’s blog: Traditional machine learning workflows focus heavily on model training and...continue reading.

These are my sketchnotes taken from the “This week in Machine Learning & AI” podcast number 88 about Using Deep Learning and Google Street View to Estimate Demographics with Timnit...continue reading.

Recently, I announced my workshop on Deep Learning with Keras and TensorFlow. The next dates for it are January 18th and 19th in Solingen, Germany. You can register now by...continue reading.

Slides from Münster Data Science Meetup These are my slides from the Münster Data Science Meetup on December 12th, 2017. knitr::include_url("https://shiring.github.io/netlify_images/lime_meetup_slides_wvsh6s.pdf") My sketchnotes were coll…continue reading.

Last night, the MünsteR R user-group had another great meetup: Karin Groothuis-Oudshoorn, Assistant Professor at the University of Twente, presented her R package mice about Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations....continue reading.

You can now book me and my 1-day workshop on deep learning with Keras and TensorFlow using R. In my workshop, you will learn the basics of deep learning what...continue reading.

In a recent project, I was looking to plot data from different variables along the same time axis. The difficulty was, that some of these variables I wanted to have...continue reading.

I have written the following post about Predictive Maintenance and flexdashboard at my company codecentric’s blog: Predictive Maintenance is an increasingly popular strategy associated with Industry 4.0; it uses advanced...continue reading.

Yesterday and today I attended the data2day, a conference about Big Data, Machine Learning and Data Science in Heidelberg, Germany. Topics and workshops covered a range of topics surrounding (big)...continue reading.

Today, I have given a webinar for the Applied Epidemiology Didactic of the University of Wisconsin – Madison titled “From Biology to Industry. A Blogger’s Journey to Data Science.” I...continue reading.

Working in Data Science, I often feel like I have to justify using R over Python. And while I do use Python for running scripts in production, I am much...continue reading.

I’m Shirin (Elsinghorst, born Glander), a biologist turned bioinformatician turned data scientist. During my PhD and Postdoc I worked with Next Generation Sequencing data. However, I then chose to become...continue reading.

It’s been a long time coming but I finally moved my blog from Jekyll/Bootstrap on Github pages to blogdown, Hugo and Netlify! Moreover, I also now have my own domain...continue reading.

I have written the following post about Data Science for Fraud Detection at my company codecentric’s blog: Fraud can be defined as “the crime of getting money by deceiving people”...continue reading.

GitHub vs. GitLab Git is a distributed implementation of version control. Many people have written very eloquently about why it is a good idea to use version control, not only...continue reading.

I have written the following post about Social Network Analysis and Topic Modeling of codecentric’s Twitter friends and followers for codecentric’s blog: Recently, Matthias Radtke has written a very nice...continue reading.