Data discovery: seasonal speed
Just writing this one quickly as it’s been hanging around my browser tabs for weeks… I wrote Taking steps (in XML) almost 7 years ago and once in a while, I...continue reading.
Just writing this one quickly as it’s been hanging around my browser tabs for weeks… I wrote Taking steps (in XML) almost 7 years ago and once in a while, I...continue reading.
Uselessness is such a long useless word! In statistics, R-squared is a statistical measure, that determines the proportion of variance in dependent variable that can be explained by the independent...continue reading.
One of the students’ requests I almost invariably reject is code debugging (and they are warned about it from the start). Here is an illustration why, with an R code...continue reading.
Are attending this year’s Joint Statistical Meetings in Toronto? If so, stop by booth 404 to see the latest features of BlueSky Statistics. A menu-based graphical user interface for the...continue reading.
One of the joys (?) of having been online for…quite some time now…is watching topics reappear every few years or so. So what’s new? In terms of English word matches:...continue reading.
A while ago we looked at Geelong and the curse of the bye. And since the AFL media have outdone themselves this year with “curse of the bye” articles: see...continue reading.
Statistical Modeling with R (A dual frequentist and Bayesian approach for life scientists) is a recent book written by Pablo Inchausti, from Uruguay. In a highly personal and congenial style...continue reading.
I’ve updated The Popularity of Data Science Software‘s market share estimates based on scholarly articles. I posted it below, so you don’t have to sift through the main article to...continue reading.
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A Riddler puzzle on the three binary and sequential questions one should ask three players hiding their respective U(0,1) realisation, U, V, and W, to best guess which player holds...continue reading.
If you’ve played with data for long enough, you’re sure to run into some popular dead-ends. There are many of these, from misspelled location names and addresses to placeholder values...continue reading.
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When interviewing impressive applicants from a stunning variety of places and background for fellows in our Data Science for Social Good program (in Warwick and Kaiserslautern) this summer, we came...continue reading.
Hey, JAGS users and would-be users, be warned that registration is now open for the annual JAGS workshop on probabilistic modelling for cognitive science. The tenth instalment of this workshop...continue reading.
A combinatorics puzzle from The Riddler about a Napoli solitaire where 4 x 10 cards numbered from 1 to 10 are shuffled and the game is lost when a number...continue reading.
While it sounds like the title of a science-fiction catastrophe novel or of a (of course) convoluted nouveau roman, this book by Nick Huntington-Klein is a massive initiation to econometrics...continue reading.
As I finished grading our undergrad math stats exam (in Paris Dauphine) over the weekend, which was very straightforward this year, the more because most questions had already been asked...continue reading.
Some years ago I read an article – I forget where – describing how our general knowledge often becomes frozen in time. Asked to name the tallest building in the...continue reading.
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My friend EJ Wagenmaker pointed me towards an entire book on the BF by Bozza (from Ca’Foscari, Venezia), Taroni and Biederman. It is providing a sort of blueprint for using...continue reading.