In their continued efforts to present statistics as a field that doesn’t suck,…
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Why study statistics
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This is Statistics
Statistics has an image problem. To the general public, it’s old, out of…
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Hiding a pregnancy from advertisers
You probably remember how Target used purchase histories to predict pregnancies among their…
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Stephen Colbert on Target and predictive analytics
“Target doesn’t just know when you’re buying sheets. They know what you’re doing…
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Companies learn your secrets with data about you
In the 1980s, students and researchers at UCLA, led by marketing professor Alan…