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"It seems like there ought to be a couple other factors that could help predict outcomes. One is population density (the NYC metro area seems to be illustrating this with skyrocketing rates.) A second would be some measure of govt…"

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""Generally, humans are immuned after infection by all of the "common cold" Coronovirii (I think there are 4?) for 6 to 9 months. That's why you get it every winter." That's probably true of some viruses but…"

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Paul Bremner commented on Stephanie Glen's blog post Understanding Covid-19 Statistics (in plain English)

"Good write-up and interesting references to the COVID-19 problem. It might be worth doing a similar analysis of the use of statistics (specifically forecasting/modeling) as it relates to COVID-19. From what I can see, the UK Imperial college…"

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Short Bio: Former CIA Analyst (15 years, about 2/3 working on Russian military, then following international telecom/computer industry and supporting trade negotiators), worked on Market Intelligence at IBM, AT&T, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Department of Energy R&D lab), Cisco. Transitioning into Marketing/Business Analytics using SAS and SQL, probably adding Python or R at some point.

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Comment on "Why R is Bad for You"

Posted on May 25, 2017 at 8:30am 1 Comment 2 Likes

There seems to be a lot confusion about the role of programming in relation to the Data Science platforms that research firms Gartner and Forrester have identified as the future of Data Science in large corporations. For example, numerous people have stated that SAS is pushing a drag-and-drop platform (Enterprise Miner) that somehow limits choices and is destined to fail due to the fact that using programming (that is, R) allows greater flexibility.

It’s certainly…

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