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How to Talk about Statistics and Data in an Era of Public Distrust: A Guide for Statistical…
How to Talk about Statistics and Data in an Era of Public Distrust: A Guide for Statistical…
Many of us find ourselves in the midst of a major data dilemma. Partly fueled by the Cambridge Analytica Facebook scandal, as well as…
Clare Clingain
Jul 7, 2018
The Statistical Law of Cosines
The Statistical Law of Cosines
No actual project today; rather, a cool analogy between statistics, linear algebra, and geometry that’d been simmering in my brain for…
Mac Tan
May 18, 2018
What Makes the Premier League Greats so Great? A k-means, PCA, and MDS Perspective (Part 1)
What Makes the Premier League Greats so Great? A k-means, PCA, and MDS Perspective (Part 1)
Sports analysts and fans alike try to decipher what sets England’s top teams apart from each other. What makes the elusive Top 4/6 so far…
Clare Clingain
May 2, 2018
Polarization, Quantified: Dimension Reduction on the Issues (Part 2)
Polarization, Quantified: Dimension Reduction on the Issues (Part 2)
Quick recap: In Part 1 of this two-part adventure into the world of dimension reduction, we found a way to quantify political polarization…
Mac Tan
Apr 30, 2018
Polarization, Quantified: Dimension Reduction on the Issues (Part 1)
Polarization, Quantified: Dimension Reduction on the Issues (Part 1)
There was this odd moment back in the 1950s when political scientists feared that the health of American democracy was being sapped by the…
Mac Tan
Apr 23, 2018
Policy, Not Politics: A Conversation with Dr. Kevin Cromar
Policy, Not Politics: A Conversation with Dr. Kevin Cromar
According to the World Bank, more than half of the world’s population is living in cities right now, and the percentage has been rising…
George Yang
Apr 19, 2018
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