There is a common saying that goes roughly, “Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a person to fish and you feed her for a lifetime.” Statistics education is all about teaching people to … Continue reading →
There is a common saying that goes roughly, “Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a person to fish and you feed her for a lifetime.” Statistics education is all about teaching people to … Continue reading →
There is a common saying that goes roughly, “Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a person to fish and you feed her for a lifetime.” Statistics education is all about teaching people to … Continue reading →
auto·di·dact n. A self-taught person. From Greek autodidaktos, self-taught : auto-, auto- + didaktos, taught; + sim·u·late v. To create a representation or model of (a physical system or particular situation, for example). From Latin simulre, simult-, from similis, like; = (If you can get past the mixing of Latin and Greek roots) sim·u·di·dactic adj. To learn by creating a representation or model of a physical system or […]
I haven't blogged in a while, mostly because I have been trying to figure out what I should do next. One thing that I have been working on lately that I am very passionate about is Movide. Movide is a student-centric learning platform. You might yawn at this point and wonder why Movide matters. It's a natural reaction, given the crowded learning tools marketplace. Movide, matters, I think, because it…
Some more help (preaching?) for students of statistics Last week I outlined the first five principles to help people to learn and study statistics. They focussed on how you need to practise in order to be good at statistics and … Continue reading →
To students of statistics Most of my posts are directed at teachers and how to teach statistics. The blog this week and next is devoted to students. I present principles that will help you to learn statistics. I’m turning them … Continue reading →
Tree methods such as CART (classification and regression trees) can be used as alternatives to logistic regression. It is a way that can be used to show the probability of being in any hierarchical group. The following is a compilation of many of the key R packages that cover trees and forests. The goal here […]
A revolution is taking place in education. Last fall, Stanford University premiered three online classes in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Introduction to Databases. I took Machine Learning and Intro to Databases, and this spring I’m ...
This past fall, I took Stanford’s class on machine learning. Overall, it was a terrific experience, and I’d like to share a few thoughts on it: A lot of participants were concerned that it was a watered down version of Stanford’s CS229. And, in ...
