This week, Rob suggests using statistics to help you plan your next project, Carly shares some surprising use cases for artificial intelligence, and Boris imagines a world without significance testing.
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Data Scientist at Automattic.
Investigating Seasonality in a Time Series: A Mystery in Three Parts
Recently, I was asked to determine the extent to which seasonality influenced a particular time series. No problem, right? The statsmodels Python package has a seasonal_decompose function that seemed pretty handy; and there's always Google! As it turns out, this was a bit trickier than I expected. In this post I’ll share some of the … Continue reading Investigating Seasonality in a Time Series: A Mystery in Three Parts
Data Speaker Series: Kevin Ferguson on AlphaGo Zero
Guest speaker Kevin Ferguson taught us about teaching a computer to play the game of Go.
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Can a bot write its own original poetry? Carly collaborated with some WordPress poets to conduct an experiment in the name of science.
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Learn how home care company Honor uses data science to aid marketing efforts.
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Data for Breakfast 