Category Archives: Extracurricular

Shiny!

Posted on January 15, 2015 by milesott

I am on a class-taking spree.  I finished up Practical Machine Learning Coursera class, and just started in on the Developing Data Products class. What is a data product?  Here’s a short description of the course: 

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Hollywood Walk of Fame

Posted on December 26, 2014 by milesott

Earlier this month, I read in a Gawker article that Bill Cosby’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was defiled.   This got me wondering if there are other people who have stars on the Walk of Fame who … Continue reading →

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I Stand Corrected… Or Do I?

Posted on August 19, 2014 by milesott

Just yesterday I received an email from Dr. Douglas Furton, a Physics Professor at Grand Valley State University.  Dr. Furton had read my blog post about One-Handed Solitaire in which I used simulations to find the probability of winning such a game.  Finding himself … Continue reading →

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A Statistical Analysis of the Humans of New York Blog

Posted on May 5, 2014 by milesott

The students in my Intro Statistics classes are diligently working on their Statistics Projects.  Every time I meet with a project group, I get excited and inspired by their ideas.  So what to do with all that inspiration?  Why not … Continue reading →

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Art of Science

Posted on November 7, 2012 by milesott

I just found out that my submission is going to be included in the Art of Science Exhibition, which is sponsored by the Brown University Division of Biology and Medicine Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.  Here is the invitation … Continue reading →

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Your Random Number Generator Dresses You Funny

Posted on August 29, 2012 by milesott

I recently lead an intense course for incoming undergraduates who are going to concentrate in the sciences. I started the class by talking about sets, then moved into counting problems, followed by calculating probabilities, independence/dependence, unions & intersections, probability distributions, … Continue reading →

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Adventures in Bathroom Solitaire

Posted on August 15, 2012 by milesott

What are the odds?  I get asked this by my non-Stats friends from time to time.  They usually don’t expect me to actually go to my thinking place (my thinking place deserves its own blog post) and calculate the odds. … Continue reading →

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Extracurricular activity

Posted on August 10, 2012 by milesott

I recently read in Inside Science that physicists had applied network analytic tools to discover whether three classic myths: Beowulf, the Iliad, and Tain Bo Cuailnge, were based in real life events (Here is the original article).    In a project that … Continue reading →

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