Data Science for Making the World a Better Place
There's a good chance that great data science is going on close to you, and that it's going toward making your city, state, country, and planet a better place. Not all the data science questions bein...
6 Marras 20159min
Kalman Runners
The Kalman Filter is an algorithm for taking noisy measurements of dynamic systems and using them to get a better idea of the underlying dynamics than you could get from a simple extrapolation. If yo...
29 Loka 201514min
Neural Net Inception
When you sleep, the neural pathways in your brain take the "white noise" of your resting brain, mix in your experiences and imagination, and the result is dreams (that is a highly unscientific explana...
23 Loka 201515min
Benford's Law
Sometimes numbers are... weird. Benford's Law is a favorite example of this for us--it's a law that governs the distribution of the first digit in certain types of numbers. As it turns out, if you'r...
16 Loka 201517min
Guinness
Not to oversell it, but the student's t-test has got to have the most interesting history of any statistical test. Which is saying a lot, right? Add some boozy statistical trivia to your arsenal in ...
7 Loka 201514min
PFun with P Values
Doing some science, and want to know if you might have found something? Or maybe you've just accomplished the scientific equivalent of going fishing and reeling in an old boot? Frequentist p-values ...
2 Syys 201517min
Watson
This machine learning algorithm beat the human champions at Jeopardy. What is... Watson?
25 Elo 201515min
Bayesian Psychics
Come get a little "out there" with us this week, as we use a meta-study of extrasensory perception (or ESP, often used in the same sentence as "psychics") to chat about Bayesian vs. frequentist statis...
18 Elo 201511min
