narratives and transformations

Joris was talking about the multiple narratives that weave through this code and Underwood & Seller's writeups.

matt was thinking about the various transformation on the data, starting at teh Hathitrust (and even farther back possibly) and moving though the code that Underwood & sellers have written to do a series of transofrmations on the data, in preparation for the logistic regression, but also including the logistic regression.

arguement that the data preparation and the logistic regression are not ontologically any different. They are all just transformations that produce new representations of the data. The representations themselves are important because they can reveal new insights on the data. But the key is the representation, not the transformation. in this article we focus on the transformations and what is happening in them (describing them empricially), especially the logistic regression. But maybe the focus could or should be the representation of the data on either end of a transofrmation. Case in point, the predictions or the coeffecients, because those are the represetnations of the dataset on the other side of the logistic regression transformation.

Keywords:

• transformation
• representation

of the data. analytical focus, is on the data and on the representstions of the data.