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stats, ml, and dataviz on interesting data

  • Dec 11
    Why Do Random Forests Work?

    “Seeing the forest for the trees” is a real groaner of a subtitle.

  • Nov 29
    A Taxonomy of Music

    Trying to fit five hundred musical genres into one comprehensible plot

  • Oct 16
    Why Do We Use the Mean?

    Why is the aritmetic mean so useful?

  • Oct 7
    Rolex Price Increases Over Time

    Watches that are more expensive every time you look.

  • Oct 1
    Student's t and the Normal Distribution

    When does the t distribution become a good approximation of the standard normal?

  • Sep 24
    Uniform Numbers Across Sports

    A look at what uniform numbers players wear in different sports.

  • Sep 14
    What Is Cosine Similarity Anyway?

    And what do triangles have to do with documents?

  • Sep 1
    Exploring the Work of HP Lovecraft with NLP

    It’s real nerd hours as I talk about both statistics and speculative fiction!

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