Michael Walker's Blog Posts Tagged 'Correlation' (3)

Musical Taste Correlates with SAT Scores?

Does human intelligence have any connection to the type of music a person listens to? Can we define human intelligence? How do you measure human intelligence? Do SAT scores accurately measure human intelligence? Is there any evidence that SAT scores accurately predict educational or workplace performance?

I am skeptical 1) that we…

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Added by Michael Walker on October 22, 2015 at 7:30pm — 4 Comments

To Hypothesize or Not to Hypothesize

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." - Albert Einstein

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Data Science is in the early stage of development and needs to develop canons to guide…

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Added by Michael Walker on May 8, 2013 at 4:49pm — No Comments

Small Data is Beautiful

The tech marketing hype machine shouting "Big Data" has drowned out the fact that more actionable, valuable insights are likely to be found in small versus large data sets. There are a number of reasons for this phenomenon, but a major reason is the curse of big data. "Big data" means…

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Added by Michael Walker on April 10, 2013 at 8:03pm — 3 Comments