Value-Train

03/12/2022

Good article that shows a meaningful way to display data, in this case gas prices, and relate them to how many hours you have to work to fill your car. It's a great example of how to properly display information.

Here's where drivers are feeling the most pain from gas prices.

01/21/2022

I thought these interesting statistics would appeal to all you sports fans and at the same time show how hard it is to find statistics that are meaningful. They need to be put into context to have meaning and this write does it well. A fun read.

Wilt Chamberlain. Joe DiMaggio. Simone Biles. Which of their athletic achievements is most impressive?

09/20/2021

In this article, I am going to discuss the math intuition behind the Gradient boosting algorithm. GBA is a supervised learning algorithm.

09/20/2021

A quick overview of the concept of Hypothesis Testing, its classification in parametric and non-parametric tests, and when to use the most…

09/20/2021

Mathematical Derivations of Kernelized Features Spaces for Linear Smoothers, with a full Computational Simulation

08/16/2021

I never thought that my profession would be considered perilous. Data Science and Statistics, danger ahead! I did design and teach a class in "defensive statistics" for hospital nurses who were constantly attacked by doctors about their use of statistical terms. That was fun. I guess they thought they were in danger.

Opinion: As evidence-based decision-making becomes more widespread, the risk of feedback increases, which is a great danger for statistics and their quality as well as for statisticians writes Dr Pali Lehohla.

03/23/2021

This is a good basic article that we should all learn from if we don't already know it, and teach our kids. I taught my kids this stuff when they were about in the 3rd grade when we would watch TV together. Whenever an advertisement would come on I'd ask them questions like this about the ad claims. It didn't take long for them to stop believing all ads. Good.

Does eating bacon really raise your cancer risk by 20 per cent? Is £350 million a week truly a lot of cash? Following some simple rules can help you figure out what numbers really mean

03/19/2021

I'm sharing this to show my disgust at how the media reports on anything involving statistics. If it happens to be true and you are a woman who wants to get married, keep a close watch on the age of who you date.

2019 statistics in comparison to 2018 show 6.2% decrease in divorce

01/11/2021

Interesting choice of a research topic with even more interesting results. Zombie movie lovers handle pandemics better! Who says you can't use statistics and have fun at the same time?

Tales of post-apocalyptic landscapes in which few survivors emerge into a new and much different world have long been popular tales woven by screenwriters and authors. While many enjoy these stories, thinking of them as nothing but a guilty pleasure, they may not realize that immersing themselves in...

01/02/2021

My posts have been focused on unusual events that involve data or statistics. It has been harder and harder to find the 'weird' news I look for because the entire world seems to be weird these days, and all for the same boring but terrible reason, pandemics and politics.

This is the best I could come up with this month. You can't make good decisions without good data. I had no idea that the entire continent of Africa does not have to report deaths for any reason and many bury just bury family members in the back yard. Yuck. The continent might be a hotbed of raging Covid19 infections and deaths but the world has no way of knowing it. The indirect evidence points to orders of magnitude more than is reported so just to be safe, although I seldom even leave my house, I'm not going to Africa anytime soon.

All 54 African countries put together have registered fewer Covid deaths than France. That doesn’t mean people aren’t dying from the virus.

11/09/2020

I just started a new data analytics job and am wondering what to use as a title. 'Smarty Pants' never occurred to me until I read this article. I added it to the list but at the bottom.

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11/07/2020

I've taught basic statistics for almost two decades and seldom had trouble getting people to 'get it'. A major reason not mentioned in the article is that I think many statistics teachers don't have the skills to teach it well. The only ones I could not reach were the students who came into a class with a poor understanding of basic math to start with. If you think the Pythagorean Theorem is a song, you won't do well at statistics! Actually I made it into a hip hop/rap song..here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGJ8XKb07T8

Today, we take a look at the reasons why so many people around the world have a hard time understanding even the basics of statistics.