This represents a list of things we are interested in covering or doing during our weekly data science meetings in Aven Nelson 210. Feel free to add or modify this list.
- Coding various samplers from "scratch" (in R, C, C++, etc.):
- Metropolis
- Metropolis-Hastings
- A tutorial on MH in R: https://theoreticalecology.wordpress.com/2010/09/17/metropolis-hastings-mcmc-in-r/
- Gibbs
- Visual examples of a number of samplers: http://chi-feng.github.io/mcmc-demo/
- The underlying javascript code: https://github.com/chi-feng/mcmc-demo/tree/master/algorithms
- Learning about Rcpp
- A gallery of Rcpp examples: http://gallery.rcpp.org/
- Using Unix or Unix-like piping in R to extract outputs from external programs
- Example: Interfacing with R2 software (http://www.es.lancs.ac.uk/people/amb/Freeware/R2/R2.htm), for electrical geophysical inference.