An introduction to Statistical Inference and Hypothesis testing
Inference In a previous blog (The difference between statistics and data science), I discussed the significance of statistical inference. In this section, we expand on th...
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Speaker Diversity Analytics with the Microsoft AI Face API
How do we increase diversity amongst our event speakers? To improve something, we must first measure it. The Face API allows us to collect some of these demographics ...
Statistical Uncertainty: Why are Covid-19 Figures so Varied?
If you’ve been keeping up on the statistics for Covid-19 in the last week (and who hasn’t?), you’ve probably noticed a wide variety of projections for d...
COVID-19 Forecast: China as a Reference
With the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak, we look at the data and use a simple model inspired by China’s example to predict when the outbreak will abate in various count...
Reasons to file for a patent, even if your employer does not offer patent bonuses.
What is the Measure of a Successful Patent What passes for wisdom from a (modestly) successful “Patent Ace” Figure 1: Ben Franklin’s “Glass Armonica,” an organ ...
How Technology tops HR trends in 2020
The world of today is digital! Every business, every person across the world has felt the impact of a digital transformation, and the field of HR has been no exception to...
DSC Webinar Series: 500 Petabytes of Data to Understand the Universe Better
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, currently under construction in Chile, will conduct a vast astronomical survey of our dynamic Universe starting in 2022. They plan to colle...
5 Most Important Skills of a Data Scientist
Data scientist was coined the sexiest job of the 21st century and with good reason. In LinkedIn 2020 Emerging Jobs Reports, Artificial intelligence was named the ‘Job...
Understanding Covid-19 Statistics (in plain English)
My original intent with this article was to write about how to understand statistics in general. However, with the global pandemic on everyone’s minds right now, it...
Mid-Career Switching into Data Science and Data Engineering
Summary: Mid-career switching into data science is difficult. But if you already have substantial data base experience becoming a Data Engineer can be a great career ...