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Jan 28, 2025
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Tessa Xie
Analytics Frameworks Every Data Scientist Should KnowWhy I believe my experience at McKinsey made me a better data scientist
Aug 28, 2024
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Aug 28, 2024
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Maria Mouschoutzi, PhD
Water Cooler Small Talk, Ep 7: Anscombe’s Quartet and the DatasaurusWhy descriptive statistics aren’t enough and plotting your data is always essential
Jan 27
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Jan 27
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Daniel McNichol
On Average, You’re Using the Wrong Average — Part IIReal & Simulated Data + Summary Statistic Dynamics using R & BigQuery
Mar 4, 2018
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Mar 4, 2018
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Tarek Samaali
A probabilistic approach to guess my phone battery level.Some phone battery levels are more recurrent than others. This led me to think more than once if there would be a way to model this…
Feb 26, 2022
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Feb 26, 2022
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The Science (and Art) of Making Good DecisionsCassie Kozyrkov, Google Cloud’s Chief Decision Scientist, on choosing the right career path and the value of data analytics
Aug 23, 2022
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Aug 23, 2022
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Venture
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KamounLab
Death by Statistics“Statistics cannot substitute for clear thinking. It can’t do the job of human inductive inference.”
Sep 5, 2022
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Sep 5, 2022
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Tessa Xie
How to Better Communicate as a Data ScientistMost valuable lessons from my time at McKinsey
May 29, 2024
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May 29, 2024
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Dr. Dennis Robert, MBBS, MMST
Five Confidence Intervals for Proportions That You Should Know AboutConfidence intervals are crucial metrics for statistical inference . Nowadays confidence intervals are receiving more attention (and…
Aug 1, 2020
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Aug 1, 2020
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Daniel McNichol
On Average, You’re Using the Wrong Average: Geometric & Harmonic Means in Data AnalysisWhen the Mean Doesn’t Mean What You Think it Means
Jan 28, 2018
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Jan 28, 2018
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Spencer Antonio Marlen-Starr
Blindspots in the Standard Risk and Decision Theory CurriculumI Took a Graduate Level Course on Decision & Risk Analysis and it was Painfully Out of Date, Here are Some Considerations I Would Update…
Jun 23, 2023
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Jun 23, 2023
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Shaw Talebi
Pareto, Power Laws, and Fat TailsWhat they don’t teach you in statistics
Nov 11, 2023
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Nov 11, 2023
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Samuele Mazzanti
Think Correlation Isn’t Causation? Meet Partial CorrelationDespite being so powerful, partial correlation is perhaps the most underrated tool in data science
Jan 8
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Jan 8
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The Pythoneers
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Thomas Konstantinovsky
5 Underrated Statistical Tests You Didn’t Know You NeededFrom TCR Repertoires to Stock Prices, These Hidden Gems Can Transform Your Analysis
Dec 30, 2024
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Dec 30, 2024
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Samuele Mazzanti
Why “Statistical Significance” Is PointlessHere’s a better framework for data-driven decision-making
Dec 1, 2024
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Dec 1, 2024
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Samuele Mazzanti
Are You Still Using the Elbow Method?The Elbow method is the most popular way to find the number of clusters for k-means. But there are much better alternatives
Feb 3, 2023
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Feb 3, 2023
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Zijing Zhu, PhD
Seven Must-Know Statistical Distributions and Their Simulations for Data ScienceAssumptions, relationships, simulations, and so on
Oct 16, 2020
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Oct 16, 2020
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Tyler Buffington, PhD
Jul 12, 2021
Jul 12, 2021
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Tyler Buffington, PhD
Where Should We Eat? The Five Rules of Decision Analysis ExplainedA gentle introduction to the discipline that connects data science to actionable value
May 16, 2022
May 16, 2022
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