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Why Are so Many Babies Born around 8:00 A.M.?

Zan Armstrong

Unpacking how schedules and methods of birth influence the birthday timestamp in the US, featuring cool data visualizations.

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Word Embeddings Explainer

Peter Baumgartner

"Imagine if every word had an address you could look up in an address book. Now also imagine if words that shared meaning lived in the same neighborhood. This is a simplified metaphor for word embeddings.""

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Data Cleaning IS Analysis, Not Grunt Work

Randy Au

"The act of cleaning data is the act of preferentially transforming data so that your chosen analysis algorithm produces interpretable results. That is also the act of data analysis."

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