Statistics

The need for big/small/long data terminology is stupid, but the main points are valid

Biostatistics PhD candidate Hilary Parker dived into the most poisoned names in US…

An analysis of the board game and gameplay

2 gigs of cat data with images and eye, mouth, and ear positions. Yeah.

I guess it’s official now

When it was time to settle down with the right man, Amy Webb…

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Jeff Leek, an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School…

I’ve been on a statistics-for-basketball spree as of late

Changing times and new ways to reach people

Learning how people play their games to provide more fun

By now, everyone’s heard of Moneyball. Applying statistics to baseball to build the…

From machine learning to data mining. From statistics to probability. A lot of…

Jer Thorp talks ethics in the data-as-new-oil metaphor:
[W]e need to change the…

With Google’s driverless cars now street legal in California, Florida, and Nevada, Gary…

R comes with a lot of datasets, some with the core distribution and…

I knew things were bad, but I didn’t know they were this bad.…

How Nate Silver won the election with Data Science. Statisticians won this round.

By way of Rafa Irizarry from Simply Statistics, a plot of Nate Silver’s…

Political analyst and statistician Nate Silver has gotten some flack lately for consistently…