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What Where They Thinking?

Andrew White

They are the road signs that report the number of fatal accidences year to date in that particulate state. The article reports on some analysis related to fatal road accidents that take place in stretches of road that follow such signs. The article reports that authors of the analysis conclude the road sign may distract drivers.

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The Events Industry and Blockchain

BizAcuity

According to a report, it is estimated that global spending on blockchain solutions has reached over $2.1 The US Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that the event industry will grow by 44% from 2010 to 2020. We’re all aware of Bitcoin and other emerging cryptocurrencies. billion this year already.

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Five Sweet Web Analytics Resolutions To Kick It Up A Notch

Occam's Razor

Before all the excitement of the new year wears out, here are five simple things I would love for you to try so that your company will have a glorious truly data driven 2010! #1: 2 Learn basic statistics. The days of tools and reports simply puking data out are rapidly reducing. 1: Don't suck. Seems obvious.

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Excellent Analytics Tips #20: Measuring Digital "Brand Strength"

Occam's Razor

Step 4: In the middle of the resulting report you'll see a trend that looks like this: This shows the number of searches for your brand, relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time (for the geographic region and time period you've chosen). Step 3: Click Search. Now you can answer those objections/scenarios.

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New Thinking, Old Thinking and a Fairytale

Peter James Thomas

Of course it can be argued that you can use statistics (and Google Trends in particular) to prove anything [1] , but I found the above figures striking. Feel free to substitute Data Lake for Data Warehouse if you want a more modern vibe, sadly it won’t change the failure statistics. . [5]. – CIO.com 2010. “61%

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Fitting Bayesian structural time series with the bsts R package

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

SCOTT Time series data are everywhere, but time series modeling is a fairly specialized area within statistics and data science. They may contain parameters in the statistical sense, but often they simply contain strategically placed 0's and 1's indicating which bits of $alpha_t$ are relevant for a particular computation. by STEVEN L.

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Changing assignment weights with time-based confounders

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

For example, imagine a fantasy football site is considering displaying advanced player statistics. A ramp-up strategy may mitigate the risk of upsetting the site’s loyal users who perhaps have strong preferences for the current statistics that are shown. One reason to do ramp-up is to mitigate the risk of never before seen arms.