Her den anden dag fik jeg læst Jytte vender tilbage. Bogen er skrevet af Morten Münster og er en opfølger til bogen Jytte fra Marketing er desværre gået for i dag (som jeg anmeldte for Kommunikationsforum). Hvis du allerede er bekendt med grundlæggende begreber inden for statistik (eksempelvis fødselsdagsparadokset), adfærdsøkonomi (eksempelvis tabsaversion), og økonomi mere […]
Month: July 2021
The plural of anecdote
There are two very different quotes. The first is “the plural of anecdote is not data”. The second is “the plural of anecdote is data”. They are pretty much opposites. You can find more information on the two quotes here. I often see the former quote being used to dismiss anecdotal evidence and ask for […]
How to improve your figures #8: Make probabilities tangible
Statistics is about learning from data in the context of uncertainty. Often we communicate uncertainty in the form of probabilities. How should we best communicate such probabilities in our figures? The key point in this post is that we should not only present probabilities in the form of probabilities and the like. Instead, we need […]
Advice on data and code
I have been reading a few papers on how to structure data and code. In the post, I provide a list of the papers I have found together with the main advice/rules offered in the respective papers (do consult the individual papers for examples and explanations). Noteworthy, there is an overlap in the advice the […]
Potpourri: Statistics #76
942. Introduction to Deep Learning — 170 Video Lectures from Adaptive Linear Neurons to Zero-shot Classification with Transformers 943. The Identification Zoo: Meanings of Identification in Econometrics 944. Why you sometimes need to break the rules in data viz 945. A Concrete Introduction to Probability (using Python) 946. R packages that make ggplot2 more beautiful […]