Mark Palko writes of the Ponzi threshold: “sometimes overhyped companies that start out with viable business plans see their valuation become so inflated that, in order to meet and sustain investor expectations, they have to come up with new and increasingly fantastic longshot schemes, anything that sounds like it might possibly pay off with lottery […] The post The Ponzi threshold and the Armstrong principle appeared first on Statistical Modeling,…
Kaiser Fung (Junkcharts, Principal Analytics Prep) gives a rare thumbs up to a pie chart; sometimes, the pie chart is better than the not-pie chart.
Kaiser Fung (Junkcharts, Principal Analytics Prep) gives a rare thumbs up to a pie chart; sometimes, the pie chart is better than the not-pie chart.
Kaiser Fung, founder of Junk Charts and Principal Analytics Prep, discusses a map of credit card debt paydown that is deceptively complex.
Kaiser Fung, founder of Junk Charts and Principal Analytics Prep, discusses a map of credit card debt paydown that is deceptively complex.
Kaiser Fung, founder of Junk Charts and Principal Analytics Prep, discusses a map of credit card debt paydown that is deceptively complex.
Commenting on this post on the “80% power” lie, Roger Bohn writes: The low power problem bugged me so much in the semiconductor industry that I wrote 2 papers about around 1995. Variability estimates come naturally from routine manufacturing statistics, which in semicon were tracked carefully because they are economically important. The sample size is […] The post Chasing the noise in industrial A/B testing: what to do when all…
Kaiser Fung, founder of JunkCharts and Principal Analytics Prep, discusses a map in the Economist about the digital silk road in China. What's the story?
Kaiser Fung, founder of JunkCharts and Principal Analytics Prep, discusses a map in the Economist about the digital silk road in China. What's the story?
Sointu Leikas pointed us to this published research article, “Exposure to inequality affects support for redistribution.” Leikas writes that “it seems to be a really apt example of “researcher degrees of freedom.'” Here’s the abstract of the paper: As the world’s population grows more urban, encounters between members of different socioeconomic groups occur with greater […] The post Some experiments are just too noisy to tell us much of anything…
