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

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.

Moviepass reminds me of Groupon

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Moviepass reminds me of Groupon

Kaiser Fung, founder of Principal Analytics Prep, explores the business model behind Moviepass, the popular but money-losing movie subscription company. Counterfactual thinking, and understanding consumer behavior are key parts of the analysis.

If you are using Facebook Ads split testing (A/B testing), stop fooling yourself

Kaiser Fung, founder of Principal Analytics Prep, and former director of Applied Analytics at Columbia University, explains why you can't run proper A/B tests on Facebook

Dispute over analysis of school quality and home prices shows social science is hard

Dispute over analysis of school quality and home prices shows social science is hard

Most of my friends with families fret over school quality when deciding

Pre-processing data is not just about correcting errors

Pre-processing data is not just about correcting errors

Exploration of IMDB rating data, by Kaiser Fung, founder of Principal Analytics Prep

What do these items have in common?

What do these items have in common?

What do the following items have in common? A. Motion-detection light switch