Writing

Notes & demos

Practitioner notes on applied machine learning, statistics, and data science, usually with something interactive to play with.

Jun 9, 2026 Choosing a threshold is a product decision, not a math problem A model gives you scores; the threshold is where you decide what to do with them. An interactive look at the precision and recall tradeoff, and why champion-challenger comparisons go wrong at the default threshold. Interactive demo →

Peer-reviewed

2026 Adapting Natural Language Processing Models Across Jurisdictions: A Pilot Study in Canadian Cancer Registries arXiv ↗
2025 Small or Large? Zero-Shot or Finetuned? Guiding Language Model Choice for Specialized Applications in Healthcare Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction ↗
2024 Classifying Tumor Reportability Status From Unstructured Electronic Pathology Reports Using Language Models JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics ↗
2023 Addressing Inequity in Spatial Access to Lung Cancer Screening Current Oncology ↗
2022 Small Area Disease Mapping of Cancer Incidence Using Bayesian Spatial Models Frontiers in Oncology ↗

Full list on Google Scholar.