Talking shop about probability
It strikes me that the media loves to talk about probability, a
Models
Reality check on the long tail
Another over-sold story?
Toward a more useful definition of Big Data
The article (link) in Science about the failure of Google Flu Trends
All else is equal except that one is more equal than the other
The mis-use of "all else being equal" in statistics and
Big Data and Marketing
In Chicago, I spoke about the impact of Big Data on marketing.
Statistics as inverse probability
Statistics is sometimes described as inverse probability.
In a typical probability problem,