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Tag Archives: Bayesian statistics
Statistical Thinking and the Birth of Modern Computing
What do fighter pilots, casinos, and streetlights all have in common? These three disparate topics are all the subject of statistical thinking that led to (and benefitted from) the development of modern computing. This process is described in Turing’s Cathedral by George … Continue reading
More Error in Art: Fake Rothko’s
We have talked before about error in art, and the two types of errors that can occur–false positives and false negatives. At the time, we discussed this problem from the perspective of scholars and museums. Today, we consider the problem … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Bayesian statistics, behavior, decision-making, economics, entertainment, ethical statistics, fun, game theory, how-to, loss functions, Mad Men, nerd, rationality, statistics, TV
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What Are the Chances Your Vote Will Matter?
Only one vote matters. In the United States, the vote that gives a presidential candidate the majority in the state that tips the electoral college decides it all. Nevertheless, about 122 million US voters went to the polls for the … Continue reading
Gelman’s Five Essential Books on American Elections
The Browser today has an interview with Andrew Gelman, one of the best-informed researchers on American elections (and other things). His selections are a bit strange eclectic, but readers of this blog might find them interesting. The one that I … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayesian statistics, elections, literature, politics, statistics
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PyCon 2012 Video Round-Up
The videos from PyCon 2012 are posted. Here are the ones I plan to watch, along with their summaries: Checking Mathematical Proofs Written in TeX ProofCheck is a set of Python scripts which parse and check mathematics written using TeX. Its … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayesian statistics, data, fun, GIS, how-to, LaTeX, mapping, nerd, Python, SQL, statistics, technical, TeX, web scraping
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