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Moviepass reminds me of Groupon

Analytics-business interaction

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.

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

Pondering OCCAM data in medicine

Pondering OCCAM data in medicine

The New York Times Magazine has a pretty good piece about the

Another PR effort to scare you into clicking

Another PR effort to scare you into clicking

From Andrew Gelman's blog, I learned about a paper that

The reality is most A/B tests fail, and Facebook is here to help

Two years ago, Wired breathlessly extolled the virtues of A/B testing