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The Luck of The Irish: The Rise in Air Traffic & Irish Economic Growth

Sisense

Economic performance was measured by GDP, and this is where modern Irish economic history and our study intersect. At this point, we looked at the GDP per capita of Ireland and noted that it had grown from an average of US $48,672 in 2010 to US $74,433 in 2017. Air Passengers Relative to Population Size (Adults 15+) by Country in 2017.

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Communal Computing’s Many Problems

O'Reilly on Data

After the release of the iPad in 2010 Craig Hockenberry discussed the great value of communal computing but also the concerns : “When you pass it around, you’re giving everyone who touches it the opportunity to mess with your private life, whether intentionally or not. This expectation isn’t a new one either.

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Changing assignment weights with time-based confounders

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

For this reason we don’t report uncertainty measures or statistical significance in the results of the simulation. From a Bayesian perspective, one can combine joint posterior samples for $E[Y_i | T_i=t, E_i=j]$ and $P(E_i=j)$, which provides a measure of uncertainty around the estimate. ACM, 2017. [4] 5] Imbens, Guido W.,

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Estimating the prevalence of rare events — theory and practice

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

The measurement may be biased if our samples are generated from a procedure that samples without replacement, such as reservoir sampling , especially if some items have disproportionate weight, i.e., $p(v_i) cdot n$ is large. Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research, 2010. [4] High Risk 10% 5% 33.3% How Many Strata? 16 (2): 101–133. [3]

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