While Model Trains

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

Data scientist, working without data

Randy Au

A data scientist's skills can prove useful even in situations where data may be unavailable.

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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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The Four Jobs of the Data Scientist

Roger Peng

For each "Data Analytic Iteration," you need to embody the roles of a scientist, statistician, system engineer, and politician.

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