Google Summer of Code - Final Report

My project “Better tools to interpret complex Bambi regression models” was completed under the organization of NumFOCUS, and mentors Tomás Capretto and Osvaldo Martin. Before I describe the project, objectives, and work completed, I would like to thank my mentors Tomás and Osvaldo for their precious time and support throughout the summer. They were always available and timely in communicating over Slack and GitHub, and provided valuable feedback during code reviews. Additionally, I would like to thank NumFOCUS and the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program for providing the opportunity to work on such an open source project over the summer. It has been an invaluable experience, and I look forward to contributing to open source projects in the future. ...

August 10, 2023 · 3 min · Gabriel Stechschulte

Google Summer of Code - Average Predictive Slopes

It is currently the beginning of week ten of Google Summer of Code 2023. According to the original deliverables table outlined in my proposal, the goal was to have opened a draft PR for the basic functionality of the plot_slopes. Subsequently, week 11 was reserved to further develop the plot_slopes function, and to write tests and a notebook for the documentation, respectively. However, at the beginning of week ten, I have a PR open with the majority of the functionality that marginaleffects has for slopes. In addition, I also exposed the slopes function, added tests, and have a PR open for the documentation. ...

August 1, 2023 · 18 min · Gabriel Stechschulte

Google Summer of Code - Average Predictive Comparisons

It is currently the end of week five of Google Summer of Code 2023. According to the original deliverables table outlined in my proposal, the goal was to have opened a draft PR for the core functionality of the plot_comparisons. Subsequently, week six and seven were to be spent further developing the plot_comparisons function, and writing tests and a demo notebook for the documentation, respectively. However, at the end of week five, I have a PR open with the majority of the functionality that marginaleffects has. In addition, I also exposed the comparisons function, added tests (which can and will be improved), and have started on documentation. ...

June 30, 2023 · 16 min · Gabriel Stechschulte