{"id":16,"date":"2021-12-27T15:54:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T15:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/danielle-notice\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2022-04-12T17:49:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T17:49:31","slug":"blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/danielle-notice\/blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"alignfull has-background wp-block-heading\" style=\"background-color:#f25c69\">A Few of my Favourite Things<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Not posts about raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, but about how some of my favourite things (shows, books, etc.) can be related to statistics and operations research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"is-flex-container columns-3 wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-289 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-a-few-of-my-favourite-things tag-metaheuristics tag-operations-research tag-optimisation post-with-thumbnail post-with-thumbnail-large\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/danielle-notice\/2022\/04\/25\/solving-sudoku-with-metaheuristics-gvns\/\" target=\"_self\" >Solving Sudoku with Metaheuristics: GVNS<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<figure class=\"alignwide wp-block-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/danielle-notice\/2022\/04\/25\/solving-sudoku-with-metaheuristics-gvns\/\" target=\"_self\"  ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"201\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/danielle-notice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2022\/05\/480794709.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Solving Sudoku with Metaheuristics: GVNS\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/danielle-notice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2022\/05\/480794709.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/danielle-notice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2022\/05\/480794709-300x101.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Reading Time: 5 minutesThe last time I travelled, I saw a little old lady in the airport with her crossword puzzle book. My grandmother travels with her word search book. Me? In my old age, I will travel with a Sudoku book. Before I hit old age, I will take advantage of the opportunity to&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2022-04-25T09:00:00+00:00\">April 25, 2022<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-197 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-a-few-of-my-favourite-things post-with-thumbnail post-with-thumbnail-large\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/danielle-notice\/2022\/03\/21\/the-tidyverse-the-best-verse-for-data-scientist\/\" target=\"_self\" >The Tidyverse: the best* -verse for data scientist<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<figure class=\"alignwide wp-block-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/danielle-notice\/2022\/03\/21\/the-tidyverse-the-best-verse-for-data-scientist\/\" target=\"_self\"  ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/danielle-notice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2022\/03\/download-720x380.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"The Tidyverse: the best* -verse for data scientist\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Reading Time: 4 minutesThis post is by no means a tutorial for the tidyverse. Nor is it an introduction to these packages or style of coding using R. Instead, this is just a compilation of my favourite features of the packages that will hopefully convince you of its power and convert you to the tidy&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2022-03-21T14:00:00+00:00\">March 21, 2022<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-146 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-a-few-of-my-favourite-things tag-matching-theory tag-operations-research post-with-thumbnail post-with-thumbnail-large\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/danielle-notice\/2022\/02\/14\/a-new-reality-tv-show-idea-the-stable-marriage-algorithm\/\" target=\"_self\" >A new reality TV show idea: the Stable Marriage algorithm<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<figure class=\"alignwide wp-block-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/danielle-notice\/2022\/02\/14\/a-new-reality-tv-show-idea-the-stable-marriage-algorithm\/\" target=\"_self\"  ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/danielle-notice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2022\/04\/image-e1649695098632-720x380.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"A new reality TV show idea: the Stable Marriage algorithm\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Reading Time: 3 minutesAs a hopeful romantic, a believer in the principle of marriage and a lover of dating reality TV, I was immediately intrigued by this problem and solution. So to celebrate Valentine&#8217;s Day I thought it would be fitting to look at the stable marriage problem. <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2022-02-14T09:00:00+00:00\">February 14, 2022<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"alignfull has-background wp-block-heading\" style=\"background-color:#f25c69\">Random Research<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>During my university years, I&#8217;ve learnt about quite a few different topics. These posts are about randomly* selected topics that I&#8217;ve researched over the years. (*Not really random)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"is-flex-container columns-3 wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-258 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-random-research tag-knn tag-operations-research tag-simulation post-with-thumbnail post-with-thumbnail-large\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/danielle-notice\/2022\/04\/11\/metric-learning-for-simulation-analytics\/\" target=\"_self\" >Metric Learning For Simulation Analytics<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<figure class=\"alignwide wp-block-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/danielle-notice\/2022\/04\/11\/metric-learning-for-simulation-analytics\/\" target=\"_self\"  ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/danielle-notice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2022\/04\/60116ef3ed42a12cae2557fd_Simulation-720x380.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Metric Learning For Simulation Analytics\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Reading Time: 5 minutesThe idea of simulation analytics was first described by Barry Nelson. It is not just &#8220;saving all the simulation data&#8221; and then applying modern data-analysis tools. In this post, we look at this emerging field. <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2022-04-11T09:00:00+00:00\">April 11, 2022<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-204 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-random-research tag-statistics tag-stochastic-block-models post-with-thumbnail post-with-thumbnail-large\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/danielle-notice\/2022\/03\/07\/fighting-in-the-karate-club-stochastic-block-models\/\" target=\"_self\" >Fighting in the Karate Club: Stochastic block models<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<figure class=\"alignwide wp-block-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/danielle-notice\/2022\/03\/07\/fighting-in-the-karate-club-stochastic-block-models\/\" target=\"_self\"  ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"356\" height=\"280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/danielle-notice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2022\/03\/karate-silhouette-260nw-122059900.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Fighting in the Karate Club: Stochastic block models\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/danielle-notice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2022\/03\/karate-silhouette-260nw-122059900.jpg 356w, https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/danielle-notice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2022\/03\/karate-silhouette-260nw-122059900-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Reading Time: 5 minutesMany situations can be represented as networks to describe the social, physical and other structures where interactions between pairs of units are observed. Stochastic block models (SBMs) are a class of random graph models which are widely studied and popular for statistical analysis of networks. In this blog, we discuss SBMs using&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2022-03-07T09:00:00+00:00\">March 7, 2022<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-152 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-random-research tag-count-regression tag-negative-binomial tag-poisson tag-statistics tag-zero-inflated post-with-thumbnail post-with-thumbnail-large\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/danielle-notice\/2022\/01\/31\/lead-probably-not-in-my-water-zero-inflated-models\/\" target=\"_self\" >Lead (probably not) in my water: zero-inflated models<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<figure class=\"alignwide wp-block-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/danielle-notice\/2022\/01\/31\/lead-probably-not-in-my-water-zero-inflated-models\/\" target=\"_self\"  ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/stor-i-student-sites\/danielle-notice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2022\/02\/image-720x380.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Lead (probably not) in my water: zero-inflated models\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Reading Time: 5 minutesIt&#8217;s interesting that there are some problems that the younger generation, if they even know it exists, assume have been dealt with completely. That&#8217;s what I thought about lead piping. Yet the University of Edinburgh and Scottish Water have ongoing research related to this. <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2022-01-31T08:00:00+00:00\">January 31, 2022<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Few of my Favourite Things Not posts about raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, but about how some of my favourite things (shows, books, etc.) can be related to statistics and operations research. Random Research During my university years, I&#8217;ve learnt about quite a few different topics. 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