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Statistics - courses, pathways

Statistics - courses, pathways

Probability and Statistics - ideas, concepts

Probability and Statistics - ideas, concepts

Moneyball, Data, Statistics and the Business of Sports - talent acquisition

Moneyball, Data, Statistics and the Business of Sports - talent acquisition

Data Visualization, Statistics, Data Science - Introduction

Data Visualization, Statistics, Data Science - Introduction

Blackjack - card counting, betting and gambling

Blackjack - card counting, betting and gambling

Probability and Statistics - Khan Academy course

Probability and Statistics - Khan Academy course

Game Theory - courses

an introduction to game theory

Big Data - Data science and AI - and business strategy

a collection of articles about Using AI and Data science

Linear Regression, Algebra - Statistics, Data Science and Academic Research

a collection of resources for students interested in Statistics and Data Science

Statistics - Introduction

a collection of resources for students interested in Statistics and Data Science

Algorithims - getting started with Machine Learning (AI)

algorithms for geting started with machine learning (artificial intelligence, AI)

Data Sets - How to find good Data Sets for AI training and Data Science

Data Sets - How to find good Data Sets for AI training and Data Science

Importance of Good Data Sets in AI and Data Science

a collection of articles about Using AI and Data science

Statistics, Data Science and Academic Research

a collection of resources for students interested in Statistics and Data Science

Big Data - Data science and AI

a collection of articles about Using AI and Data science

Resources within this category

Article

7.3 Billion People, One Building — Wait But Why

This isn't gonna be pleasant for anyone. How big a building would you need to fit them all in it? It’s a question that’s tantalized almost no o... (2024)


Article

Chatbots: Still Dumb After All These Years | Mind Matters

Despite the boasts of Google and OpenAI about their human-like chatbot models, algorithms lack the understanding needed for a true conversation. (2022)


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A guide to R — the pandemic’s misunderstood metric - Nature

What the reproduction number can and can’t tell us about managing COVID-19. R, the average number of people each person with a disease goes on t... (2020)


Article

Comparing COVID-19 Deaths to Flu Deaths Is like Comparing Apples to Oranges

The former are actual numbers; the latter are inflated statistical estimates “ The 25,000 to 69,000 numbers that Trump cited do not represent co... (2020)


Article

Graphics That Seem Clear Can Easily Be Misread   - Scientific American

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understandi... (2019)


Article

Random Forests for Complete Beginners - victorzhou.com

The definitive guide to Random Forests and Decision Trees. Imy opinion, most Machine Learning tutorials aren’t beginner-friendly enough. Last... (2019)


Article

How to Solve Linear Regression Using Linear Algebra

Linear regression is a method for modeling the relationship between one or more independent variables and a dependent variable. It is a staple of s... (2018)


Article

Scientists rise up against statistical significance - Nature

Valentin Amrhein, Sander Greenland, Blake McShane and more than 800 signatories call for an end to hyped claims and the dismissal of possibly cruci... (2019)


Article

It's Time to Change the Narrative About Clean Energy

The clean energy conversation has become part of a larger culture war that fits neatly into the media’s all-too-predictable tendency of false equiv... (2016)


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A Guide to Statistics on Historical Trends in Income Inequality | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

The years from the end of World War II into the 1970s were ones of substantial economic growth and broadly shared prosperity. Beginning in the 1970... (2011)


Article

Estimating the chances of something that hasn’t happened yet

A handy rule of thumb for creating a confidence interval for the probability of an event you haven't seen happen yet. (2018)


Article

A Tour of The Top 10 Algorithms for Machine Learning Newbies

In machine learning, there’s something called the “No Free Lunch” theorem. In a nutshell, it states that no one algorithm works best for every prob... (2018)


Article

IBM launches tool aimed at detecting AI bias - BBC News

IBM is launching software which will monitor algorithms in real time and highlight how they make decisions. (2018)


Article

Forecasting at Uber: An Introduction

In this article, we provide a general overview of how our teams leverage forecasting to build better products and maintain the health of the Uber m... (2018)


Article

The state of competition and dynamism: Facts about concentration, start-ups, and related policies

In this set of economic facts, The Hamilton Project assesses the decline in dynamism and competition in the U.S. economy, exploring trends in marke... (2018)


Article

The US startup company is disappearing—and that's bad for the economy — Quartz

Historically, startups have been the engine of US economy. By creating new jobs and surfacing new ideas, startups play an outsized role in making t... (2018)


Article

15 Types of Regression you should know

This tutorial covers 15 common regression analysis techniques for predictive modeling and data science. It includes detailed explanation of regres... (2018)


Article

Enlightenment Now - My new favorite book of all time | Bill Gates

Bill Gates reviews “Enlightenment Now” by author Steven Pinker. "I’m all for more reason, science, and humanism, but what I found most interest... (2018)


Article

Some good news, for once | Bill Gates

By Bill Gates | January 4, 2018 Reading the news today does not exactly leave you feeling optimistic. Hurricanes in the Americas. Horrific mass... (2018)


Article

Modes, Medians and Means: A Unifying Perspective

Any traditional introductory statistics course will teach students the definitions of modes, medians and means. But, because introductory courses c... (2017)


Article

Five ways to fix statistics

As debate rumbles on about how and how much poor statistics is to blame for poor reproducibility, Nature asked influential statisticians to recomme... (2017)


Video

Stanford's FREE data science book and course are the best yet

Stanford's FREE data science book and course are the best yet (2023)


Video

The trickiest problem in statistics (and how it relates to the probability of the multiverse)

For decades, the Sleeping Beauty Problem has divided people between two answers. 160,439 People Agree With Me, 64,831 Disagree… (2023)


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Simpson's Paradox - Statistics

Thanks to brilliant.org/minutephysics for sponsoring this video! This video is about Simpson's paradox, a statistical paradox and ecological fallac... (2020)


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Finding probability example | Probability and Statistics | Khan Academy

In order to find the probability of picking a yellow marble from a bag, we have to first determine the number of possible outcomes and how then man... (2019)


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What Is Statistics: Crash Course Statistics #1 - CrashCourse

Welcome to Crash Course Statistics! In this series we're going to take a look at the important role statistics play in our everyday lives, beca... (2019)


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Why you should love statistics | TEDx - Alan Smith

Think you're good at guessing stats? Guess again. Whether we consider ourselves math people or not, our ability to understand and work with numbers... (2019)


Video

Bill Gates on Factfulness

Bill Gates recently read Hans Rosling's new book "Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think." I... (2018)


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Intro to Linear Regression | Marginal Revolution University

Marginal Revolution University Published on Oct 17, 2017 "Do good looking professors score higher on course evaluations? Let’s ask the data! Jo... (2018)


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Intro to Understanding Data | Marginal Revolution University

Researchers at universities, smartphones, web apps, the government, and more — they’re all amassing mountains of data. But what does all this data ... (2018)


Podcast

Florence Nightingale: Data Viz Pioneer - 99% Invisible | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from 99% Invisible on Spotify. Victorian nurse Florence Nightingale (played in this episode by her distant cous... (2021)


Website

Our World in Data

Research and interactive data visualizations to understand the world’s largest problems. Living conditions around the world are changing rapidly. ... (2019)


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