Links tagged “statistics”
8 links, newest first.
seeing-theory.brown.edu
The first chapter of Seeing Theory, an interactive visual introduction to chance events, expectation and variance.
callingbullshit.org
Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West's course on spotting and refuting bullshit, with syllabus, videos and case studies centred on misleading data and statistics.
datausa.io
Public US government data assembled into automated visual profiles of places, industries, occupations, universities, degrees and products.
stat.cmu.edu
Course site for Larry Wasserman's CMU statistical machine learning class, with the lecture schedule and notes on regression, classification, clustering, graphical models and causal inference.
leanpub.com
Roger D. Peng's book on R for data analysis, covering vectors, data frames with dplyr, control flow, functions, debugging, regular expressions and parallel computation.
tomtunguz.com
An analysis of the founding teams behind 30 billion-dollar startups, finding that most include a technical founder but no clear link between team composition and outcome.
googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com
2007 study of roughly 70,000 domains correlating web server software with malware hosting, finding IIS over-represented relative to its share against Apache.
svnstat.sourceforge.net
Manual for SvnStat, a Java tool that turns Subversion logs into report graphs of commit activity by day, by user and over time.
