While Model Trains

Read data blog posts.
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How I Became a Data Scientist Despite Having Been a Math Major

Tim Hopper

"Given this description of how my schooling left me woefully unprepared for a career in data science, one might ask how I have had two jobs with that title. I can think of several (though probably not all) reasons."

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Exploring Bob Ross paintings

Emily Robinson

"If you’ve seen Bob Ross paintings, it’s probably not too surprising that 'tree' is the top feature."

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From both sides now: the math of linear regression

Katherine Bailey

A journey starting from the standard formulation of linear regression, moving on to the probabilistic approach, and then progressing to Bayesian linear regression.

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