The backlash against Big Data has started
It is inevitable that all the hype around "Big Data"
Statisticians
Use of statistics in setting insurance rates
Reader Mark Johnstone, from across the pond, points me to some fascinating
The causation creep
If you're reading this blog, you probably have heard that
Popularizing tiny effects
I found my way to Mark Liberman's post at Language
Derman, Rodrik and the nature of statistical models
I just finished Emanuel Derman's new book, "Models Behaving
Three hours in the life of a (glorified) "data scientist"
I thought readers might like a peek at how I spent three