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People ask me about getting started with data science all the time. So I came up with three paths for self study: Easy, Medium and Hard. Continue reading to hear

WHY IS IT SO HARD TO KNOW WHAT TO DO FOR THANKSGIVING THIS YEAR AND WHY DON'T WE ALL AGREE? A data analyst's perspective. Thread. MANAGING CORONAVIRUS RISK

The biggest challenge with comparing programming languages is EVERYBODY LIES! They lie about speed, learning time, hidden costs, community weaknesses. EVERYTHING! And the “you can do anything in any language

Don't know what a P-VALUE is?Don't know why P-VALUES work?Don't know why sometimes P-VALUES don't work?THIS IS THE THREAD FOR YOU. DEFINITION OF A P-VALUE. Assume your theory is

Statisticians like me say CORRELATION ISN'T CAUSATION but that's not the whole story.There are at least FOUR different scenarios!A thread. 1. CORRELATED BY CHANCE. There's always a possibility that

The reason machine learning algorithms show bias is that the goal of these algorithms is to learn ALL the patterns in the data including the biases. The "bias" is actually

One of my most strongly held political beliefs is experts shouldn't rule over non-experts without their consent. I won't try to define for you who exactly the "experts" are because

Some folks think "Objective reality exists" is a good counterargument to "Science is socially constructed". It's not and here's why ... The more I argue with folks about how "science

NO SERIOUSLY. Science is SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED! Imagine a group of people discussing whether there's a lion in the bush. In reality, there is or there isn't a lion in the

Sometimes I hear people say their thought process is Bayesian. They seem to mean that they often rate their beliefs on a scale of [0,1] and they "update" by which

WHAT CAN ARMCHAIR EPIDEMIOLOGY teach us about scientific expertise? Should scientists stay in their lane? Let's discuss ... During the early days of the pandemic, we saw a dramatic

In my view, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS is a type of etiquette. An etiquette is a set of rules for navigating social situations without causing offense. It also provides a kind of