While Model Trains

Read data blog posts.
Carefully handpicked.
Presented 3 at a time.

How Dangerous Is Biking in New York?

Gregory Gundersen

Estimating the probability of a fatal injury occurring during bike commuting to work in New York.

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Choose boring technology

Dan McKinley

On avoiding the excessive adoption of new technologies solely for the sake of it.

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Understanding the beta distribution (using baseball statistics)

David Robinson

"The beta distribution is best for representing a probabilistic distribution of probabilities- the case where we don’t know what a probability is in advance, but we have some reasonable guesses."

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