A recent survey by Kaggle revealed that data professionals used a variety of different ML algorithms in their work.
Tag Archives | statistics
Data Days Video Series: What is Data Science?
I like sharing my knowledge about the power of data and analytics. This knowledge can help business leaders and citizens understand how the world works, improving how they manage their business and make better decisions to improve their personal lives, respectively. Toward that end, I am creating a video series called, Data Days, to explore the world […]
Top 10 BOB Blog Posts of 2016: Data Science Skills, Tools and Statistics
Each year, I write a summary of my most popular blog posts. This year-end summary is a rather simple exercise. I count the pageviews of my blog posts and present the top 10 posts of the year. This year’s BOB blog count, however, only goes from January through June 2016. Since June, I have been writing primarily […]
Data Science: North America and EMEA Lead in Statistics and Math Proficiency
The AnalyticsWeek and Business Over Broadway Data Science Survey survey revealed regional differences in data science roles, proficiency in data science skills and satisfaction with work outcomes. APAC has the lowest percent of Business Manager data scientists (32%). LATAM has the lowest percent of Creative data scientists (25%). North America has the lowest percent of Developer […]
Making Sense of Our Big Data World: Samples, Populations and Sampling Error
As part of my series on Making Sense of Our Big Data World, today’s post is on sampling error. See the overview, Making Sense of Our Big Data World: Statistics for the 99%, to understand the importance and value of understanding statistics and statistical thinking. This Big Data world is defined by the enormous amount […]
Top 10 BOB Blog Posts of 2015: Data Science, Statistics, Sentiment and Theresa
I’ve counted the pageviews of each of my 2015 blog posts and present them here in my end-of-year summary. This year, I wrote a lot about my research in the areas of data science; this research focused on the meaning of data science and how organizations can best leverage their data. Additionally, I conducted and […]
Making Sense of our Big Data World: Descriptive Statistics
As part of my series on Making Sense of Our Big Data World, today’s post is on descriptive statistics. See the overview, Making Sense of Our Big Data World: Statistics for the 99%, to understand the importance and value of understanding statistics and statistical thinking. In the previous post, I showed how to calculate frequencies […]
Making Sense of Our Big Data World: Frequencies, Percentages, Histograms and Distributions
This blog post is part of a series to help people learn the basic concepts of statistics. See the overview, Making Sense of Our Big Data World: Statistics for the 99%, to understand the importance and value of understanding statistics and statistical thinking. Data can be overwhelming. Often we are confronted with large data sets consisting of […]
Beyond the Ultimate Question
Measuring Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty (3rd Ed.)