Today Dennis Kimetto ran the Berlin Marathon in 2:02:57, shaving 26 seconds off the previous world record. That means it's time to check in on the world record progression and update my update from last year of my article from two year...
Today Dennis Kimetto ran the Berlin Marathon in 2:02:57, shaving 26 seconds off the previous world record. That means it's time to check in on the world record progression and update my update from last year of my article from two year...
Last week Nate Silver posted this article explaining how the FiveThirtyEight Senate forecast model works. If you are familiar with Silver's work, you probably know that (1) he has been notably successful at predicting outcomes of elections, and (...
I was at Boston Data-Con 2014 this morning, which was a great event. The organizer, John Verostek, seems to have created this three-day event single-handedly, so I am hugely impressed.Imran Malek started the day with a very nice iPython tutorial....
According to an exciting new study, childhood vaccines are almost miraculously effective at preventing suffering and death due to infectious disease.Sadly, that is not actually a headline, because it doesn't generate clicks. What does generate cl...
I've just turned in the manuscript for the second edition of Think Stats. If you're dying to get your hands on a copy, you can pre-order one here.Most of the book is about computational methods, but in the last chapter I break out some analytic m...
I am working on the second edition of Think Stats, adding chapters on some topics that didn't make it into the first edition, including survival analysis. Here is the draft of the new chapter; this post contains some of the highlights.Survival an...
Last year my occasional correspondent John D. Cook wrote an excellent blog post about the Lincoln index, which is a way to estimate the number of errors in a document (or program) by comparing results from two independent testers. Here's his pres...
At the next Boston Python user group meeting, participants will present their solutions to a series of puzzles, posted here. One of the puzzles lends itself to a solution that uses Python iterators, which is something I was planning to get more f...
Last year I gave a keynote talk at PyCon Taiwan called "Python Epistemology," and I wrote this blog article about it. The video is here, but unfortunately the sound quality is poor. In the talk, I demonstrate the use of a Counter, one ...
This week's post has more math than most, so I wrote in it LaTeX and translated it to HTML using HeVeA. Some of the formulas are not as pretty as they could be. If you prefer, you can read this article in PDF. Abstract: My two favorite topics in probability and statistics are Bayes’s theorem and logistic regression. Because there are similarities between them, I have always assumed that there…
