Chart Check on “A Dangerous Permanent Trend”
Do we have a dangerous permanent trend in US crime? “We have a crime problem. I wish the blip, I wish the rise that we are seeing in crime in America today were some sort of abortion or a blip. […]
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Cycle 2 – Data Growth
Data Dogs meets every first Monday at Hawthorne Lucky Lab from 6pm-8pm. Registration is not required but content for the monthly meetup is published here: https://www.meetup.com/Portland-Data-Science-Group/ Cycle 2 – Data Growth (2/6/17) “Everything you know, everything you can think of, […]
Skepticism, Data and Business Metrics
(TL;DR) As we’ve hurried down the empirical path of measurement while also having a large head full of rationalist theory, we’ve come to an interesting intersection. People are becoming more skeptical of data measurements, collection, results and this is a […]
Journal Analysis…Take One!
UPDATE: 6/17/15 – I’ve since realized that a dataframe is not the right format for timeseries analysis. I’ve redone this code and will post an update soon. In this dataset I go through my 2008 journal and plot it over […]
Estimation – Why we are bad at it.
I quickly go through why we are bad at estimation. I find this useful to know in my professional life and personal life.
Welcome, Nerd Culture, Data
Some thoughts on nerd culture and why I’m interested in data. I saw this at Sun Coast Video on 4/26/15. Somehow some WWF merch got on the geek shelf. :]
Comments On: Data Science Done Well Looks Easy
This is a good article: simplystatistics.org/2015/03/17/data-science-done-well-looks-easy-and-that-is-a-big-problem-for-data-scientists/ Let’s split the points into two distinct categories: 1. Visualization makes data-science look easy. 2. The backend work is difficult. I don’t think this split is at all new. I think that data visualization […]