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  1. Pinned Tweet
    17 Aug 2015

    'Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.' -- Charles Babbage

    5 replies . 211 retweets 220 likes
  2. Jan 13

    The Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test can have greater asymptotic relative efficiency than the t-test for heavy-tailed distributions.

    4 replies . 17 retweets 35 likes
  3. Jan 13

    8 trends in data science from

    6 retweets 26 likes
  4. Jan 12

    No amount of data can persuade you of something you assign zero prior probability to. -- Cromwell's rule

    4 replies . 71 retweets 102 likes
  5. Jan 11

    Linear regression is much more than curve-fitting.

    25 retweets 56 likes
  6. Jan 11

    The First Release of PyMC3

    6 replies . 36 retweets 72 likes
  7. Jan 10

    Saw a comment in code "Do something with this information." Ah, that's the hard part. '

    1 reply . 14 retweets 40 likes
  8. Jan 10

    Omitted-variable bias

    7 retweets 22 likes
  9. Jan 9

    FWHM = full width at half maximum. Distance between points on either side of the mode where a function takes half its maximum value.

    2 replies . 8 retweets 32 likes
  10. Jan 9

    The big deal about neural networks

    10 retweets 30 likes
  11. Jan 6

    You can learn things from a dozen human subjects you couldn't learn from a million mice. Data relevance beats data size.

    1 reply . 72 retweets 98 likes
  12. Jan 5

    Bayesian and nonlinear

    10 retweets 30 likes
  13. Jan 4

    R. A. Fisher was the first to use the term 'Bayesian,' and he didn't mean it as a compliment.

    3 replies . 43 retweets 73 likes
  14. Jan 3

    Three reasons a method might perform worse with more data, and how to fix them.

    5 retweets 31 likes
  15. Jan 3

    New post: Native Hadoop file system (HDFS) connectivity in Python

    3 replies . 87 retweets 146 likes
  16. Jan 2

    'A statistical analysis, properly conducted, is a delicate dissection of uncertainties, a surgery of suppositions.' -- M. J. Moroney

    58 retweets 78 likes
  17. 30 Dec 2016

    Beer, wine, and statistics

    21 retweets 18 likes
  18. 29 Dec 2016

    'Everyone thinks that the data in other people’s subjects are in better shape.' -- John Tukey

    31 retweets 56 likes
  19. 28 Dec 2016

    How to test a random number generator

    23 retweets 49 likes
  20. 27 Dec 2016

    For network analysis, check out .

    1 retweet 4 likes
  21. 27 Dec 2016

    GNU Parallel

    12 retweets 24 likes

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