Nikhil Addleman

A data scientist looking for new puzzles.

I'm a data scientist working on product and marketing analytics at Bayer. I got a PhD at the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences at UC Irvine where I looked at mathematical models in evolutionary game theory and characterized the distribution of religious group sizes across geography.

Check out my latest essay: Hello, World! in Python

Essays

Informal writings exploring various topics:

• Hello, World! in Python
• my setup
• Vim, initially
• Understanding Gaussian process regression
• Building an OLS classifier from scratch
• Animated decision tree regression
• Bootstrapped error bands for function estimation
• Generalized additive models and backfitting