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Bias

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

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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Apparently Hollywood does not recycle action-movie plots. The data said so, so it must be right
Bias

Apparently Hollywood does not recycle action-movie plots. The data said so, so it must be right

It pains me to think how many people have used these keywords to build models.
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Dispute over analysis of school quality and home prices shows social science is hard
Aggregation

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
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Pre-processing data is not just about correcting errors
Algorithms

Pre-processing data is not just about correcting errors

Exploration of IMDB rating data, by Kaiser Fung, founder of Principal Analytics Prep
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The plural of anecdote is not ...
Aggregation

The plural of anecdote is not ...

One of my favorite statistics-related wisecracks is: the plural of anecdote is
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Analytics-business interaction

Why are GMAT scores going up?

In Chapter 1 of Numbersense (link), I went through an extensive list
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