Posts Tagged ‘ Big Data ’

A Report from an AI Day in Hoboken

July 2, 2018
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A Report from an AI Day in Hoboken

Kaiser Fung, founder of Principal Analytics Prep and Columbia Applied Analytics, responds to talks by AI experts at a recent forum.

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Dead man tells no tales but dead statistician had the story down

June 12, 2018
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Dead man tells no tales but dead statistician had the story down

Kaiser Fung, author of Numbersense and founder of Principal Analytics Prep, explains the preliminary finding about the death of a Tesla driver, and warns about drawing the wrong conclusions due to a biased sample.

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Dead man tells no tales but dead statistician had the story down

June 12, 2018
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Dead man tells no tales but dead statistician had the story down

Kaiser Fung, author of Numbersense and founder of Principal Analytics Prep, explains the preliminary finding about the death of a Tesla driver, and warns about drawing the wrong conclusions due to a biased sample.

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Misinformed, and mal-intentioned: the proposed EPA policy on disclosures

May 29, 2018
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EPA commissioner Scott Pruitt sinks to a new low in his dogged campaign against evidence-based decision-making. (See my previous posts in which I dissected his other tactics here and here.) He directs his agency to propose new rules for disclosure of data and methods for climate science, placing himself in charge of opining whether a given study has enough disclosure to be allowed into evidence. Slate’s Daniel Engber, someone I…

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Misinformed, and mal-intentioned: the proposed EPA policy on disclosures

May 29, 2018
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EPA commissioner Scott Pruitt sinks to a new low in his dogged campaign against evidence-based decision-making. (See my previous posts in which I dissected his other tactics here and here.) He directs his agency to propose new rules for disclosure of data and methods for climate science, placing himself in charge of opining whether a given study has enough disclosure to be allowed into evidence. Slate’s Daniel Engber, someone I…

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Using large numbers to impress the impressionable

May 16, 2018
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Using large numbers to impress the impressionable

Kaiser Fung, founder of Principal Analytics Prep, discusses Facebook's claim of removing millions of fake accounts.

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rquery: SQL from R

May 10, 2018
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rquery: SQL from R

My BARUG rquery talk went very well, thank you very much to the attendees for being an attentive and generous audience. (John teaching rquery at BARUG, photo credit: Timothy Liu) I am now looking for invitations to give a streamlined version of this talk privately to groups using R who want to work with SQL … Continue reading rquery: SQL from R

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Understanding scales and normalization, for better measurement

May 2, 2018
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Understanding scales and normalization, for better measurement

Kaiser Fung, founder of Principal Analytics Prep, discusses a measurement problem inherent in the Google Search Index used as an indirect metric to measure search popularity.

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Understanding scales and normalization, for better measurement

May 2, 2018
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Understanding scales and normalization, for better measurement

Kaiser Fung, founder of Principal Analytics Prep, discusses a measurement problem inherent in the Google Search Index used as an indirect metric to measure search popularity.

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Why many published data analyses have so little real value

April 26, 2018
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Why many published data analyses have so little real value

Kaiser Fung, founder of Principal Analytics Prep and Columbia's Applied Analytics, explains why the huge Citibike dataset has not generated much analyses of value to managers.

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