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Category Archives: Extracurricular
Shiny!
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:
Posted in Extracurricular, Fun with Statistics, Statistics, Teaching
Tagged coursera, data products, Fun, sample size calculator, shiny
Hollywood Walk of Fame
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
Posted in Extracurricular
Tagged Hollywood Walk of Fame, R, RStudio, Text Mining, Web Scraping
I Stand Corrected… Or Do I?
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
Posted in Card Games, Extracurricular, Fun with Statistics, Statistics
Tagged Bathroom Solitaire, Games, one handed solitaire, Probability, R, Simulations, statistics, StatsFun
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Fun with RStudio, the Internet, Beyonce, and some TV Shows
This week, I had the great privilege of attending the second Computation and Visualization Consortium, led by Danny Kaplan, Randy Pruim, and Nick Horton. I met so many fascinating people, and learned so much in five days, it’s almost as … Continue reading
Posted in Computational Social Sciences, Extracurricular, Fun with Statistics, Statistics
Tagged Beyonce, Bob's Burgers, Breaking Bad, Community, Dangerously In Love, Fun on the Internet, Lyrics, networks, Procrastination, R, RMarkdown, RStudio, Seinfeld, Social Network and Social Media Analysis, The Americans, TV, Web Scraping
A Statistical Analysis of the Humans of New York Blog
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
Posted in Extracurricular, Fun with Statistics, Statistics
Tagged #HumansofNewYork, LinearRegression, StatisticalAnalysis, Statistics Fun
Art of Science
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
Posted in Extracurricular, Fun with Statistics, random art, Statistics
Tagged art of science exhibit, Brown University BioMed
Your Random Number Generator Dresses You Funny
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
Adventures in Bathroom Solitaire
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
Posted in Extracurricular, Statistics, Teaching
Tagged Bathroom Solitaire, Binomial Distribution, Card Games, Fun
Extracurricular activity
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
