datapine

DECEMBER 28, 2021

1) What Is A Misleading Statistic? 2) Are Statistics Reliable? 3) Misleading Statistics Examples In Real Life. 4) How Can Statistics Be Misleading. 5) How To Avoid & Identify The Misuse Of Statistics? If all this is true, what is the problem with statistics? What Is A Misleading Statistic?

Statistics 363

Statistics Advertising Visualization Data mining 363

Anmut

OCTOBER 29, 2020

On the 29th of October 2020, the WHO reported 44,002,003 confirmed cases. Worldometer which John Hopkins base their figures on, reported 44,860,215 cases. The role of data governance. This large gap between reported figures raises tough questions on the reliability of COVID-19 tracking data.

Data Governance 52

Data Governance Data Collection Data-driven Statistics 52

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

APRIL 17, 2017

Quantification of forecast uncertainty via simulation-based prediction intervals. We conclude with an example of our forecasting routine applied to publicly available Turkish Electricity data. They can arise from data collection errors or other unlikely-to-repeat causes such as an outage somewhere on the Internet.

Forecasting 83

Forecasting Modeling Statistics Uncertainty 83

Domino Data Lab

JULY 22, 2019

He was saying this doesn’t belong just in statistics. He also really informed a lot of the early thinking about data visualization. It involved a lot of interesting work on something new that was data management. To some extent, academia still struggles a lot with how to stick data science into some sort of discipline.

Data Science 109

Data Science Machine Learning Data Governance Modeling 109

Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

We are far too enamored with data collection and reporting the standard metrics we love because others love them because someone else said they were nice so many years ago. Remember that the raw number is not the only important part, we would also measure statistical significance. Online, offline or nonline. The result?

Metrics 156

Metrics KPI Analytics Key Performance Indicator 156

O'Reilly on Data

JUNE 16, 2020

We know, statistically, that doubling down on an 11 is a good (and common) strategy in blackjack. But when making a decision under uncertainty about the future, two things dictate the outcome: (1) the quality of the decision and (2) chance. Mike had made the common error of equating a bad outcome with a bad decision.

Uncertainty 275

Uncertainty Testing Risk Reporting 275