Mark Webster
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Adding "views" to autodb, part three: summarising the schema
Last time, we wrote a function to check whether a given database schema is connected – ignoring relations for constants, as a special …
Last updated on 3 December 2025
Adding "views" to autodb, part two: initial tests
Last time, I showed how I think that adding “views” – i.e. previous decomposition steps, or “pre-decompositions” – to a database schema …
Last updated on 9 November 2025
Adding "views" to autodb, part one: motivation
autodb is still chugging along. Most of the additions I’ve made recently have been stuff that’s nice to have around the edges. Add a …
Last updated on 30 October 2025
Manchester R user group slides
I gave a short talk on the autodb package to the Manchester R user group a few days ago. The slides are now available here, or from the …
Last updated on 5 July 2025
autodb is on CRAN
I’m pleased to announce that autodb is now on CRAN, in addition to Github. I haven’t submitted anything to CRAN before, so I’m really …
Last updated on 5 July 2025
R has no consistent table class
The usual case R, in addition to being array-based, can also be table-based: it has a table class in the base language, data.frame. …
Last updated on 5 July 2025
Decomposing general scores as simple expectations
Previously, we decomposed the Brier score into simple expectations. We saw that, unlike the posterior decomposition, where we get the …
Last updated on 6 January 2024
Decomposing the Brier score as simple expectations
There are plenty of articles out there on decomposing the Brier score, but they’re usually done in notation that’s …
Last updated on 6 January 2024
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