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From Idea to Insight: Using Bayesian Hierarchical Models to Predict Game Outcomes Part 1

From Idea to Insight: Using Bayesian Hierarchical Models to Predict Game Outcomes Part 1

ModelingStatisticsbayesianHierarchical Bayesian Modelsposted by Brandon Dey, ODSC January 17, 2020

Imagine you’re a data scientist at an online mobile multiplayer competition platform. Your bosses have a vested interest in paying people with our skillset to predict game outcomes for a variety of commercial applications they profit from, for example, setting odds and sharing better insights with game developers on... Read more
The Turf War Between Causality and Correlation In Data Science: Which One Is More Important?

The Turf War Between Causality and Correlation In Data Science: Which One Is More Important?

ModelingStatisticscausalityCorrelationposted by Leihua Ye January 6, 2020

Data scientists have tried to differentiate causality from correlation. Last month alone, I’ve seen 20+ posts referencing the catchphrase “correlation is not causality.” What they actually want to say is correlation is not as good as causality. [Related Article: Discovering 135 Nights of Sleep with Data, Anomaly Detection, and... Read more
Regression Discontinuity Design: The Crown Jewel of Causal Inference

Regression Discontinuity Design: The Crown Jewel of Causal Inference

ModelingStatisticscasual inferenceposted by Leihua Ye December 17, 2019

Background In a series of posts (here, here, here, here and here), I’ve explained why and how we should run social experimentations. However, it’s not possible to do social experiments all the time, and researchers have to identify causal effects by other observational and quasi-experimental methods. [Related Article: Causal Inference: An Indispensable Set of... Read more
A Quick Look Into Bootstrapping

A Quick Look Into Bootstrapping

Machine LearningModelingRStatisticsTools & LanguagesbootstrappingStatisticsposted by Leihua Ye December 3, 2019

Executive Summary As a resampling method, bootstrapping allows us to generate statistical inferences about the population from a single sample. Learn to bootstrap in R. Bootstrapping lies the foundation for several machine learning methods (e.g., Bagging. I’ll explain Bagging in a follow-up post). [Related Article: Discovering 135 Nights of... Read more
Discovering 135 Nights of Sleep with Data, Anomaly Detection, and Time Series

Discovering 135 Nights of Sleep with Data, Anomaly Detection, and Time Series

ModelingPythonRStatisticsTools & Languagesanomaly detectionTime Seriesposted by Juan De Dios Santos November 4, 2019

In this article, I look at data from 135 nights of sleep and use anomaly detection and time series data to understand the results. Three things are certain in life: death, taxes, and sleeping. Here, we’ll talk about the latest. Every night*, us humans, after a long day of... Read more
3 Common Regression Pitfalls in Business Applications

3 Common Regression Pitfalls in Business Applications

Business + ManagementModelingStatisticsregressionposted by Jacey Heuer October 21, 2019

Regression is a fantastic tool for aiding business decisions. The traditional purpose of a regression model is to find the mean value of a dependent variable given a set of independent variables. In a business, this purpose should be expanded to include the reduction of uncertainty in future events.... Read more
Hierarchical Bayesian Models in R

Hierarchical Bayesian Models in R

ModelingRStatisticsTools & Languagesbayesianhierarchical bayesianHierarchical Bayesian ModelsStatisticsposted by Nathaniel Jermain August 19, 2019

Hierarchical approaches to statistical modeling are integral to a data scientist’s skill set because hierarchical data is incredibly common. In this article, we’ll go through the advantages of employing hierarchical Bayesian models and go through an exercise building one in R. If you’re unfamiliar with Bayesian modeling, I recommend... Read more
The Empirical Derivation of the Bayesian Formula

The Empirical Derivation of the Bayesian Formula

Guest contributorMachine LearningModelingStatisticsbayseianMachine Learningposted by Jannes Klaas June 18, 2019

Editor’s note: James is a speaker for ODSC London this November! Be sure to check out his talk, “The How, Why, and When of Replacing Engineering Work with Compute Power” there. Deep learning has been made practical through modern computing power, but it is not the only technique benefiting... Read more
Why Do Tree Ensembles Work?

Why Do Tree Ensembles Work?

Guest contributorMachine LearningModelingStatisticsMachine LearningStatisticsposted by Joe Ross April 10, 2019

Ensembles of decision trees (e.g., the random forest and AdaBoost algorithms) are powerful and well-known methods of classification and regression. We will survey work aimed at understanding the statistical properties of decision tree ensembles, with the goal of explaining why they work. An elementary probabilistic motivation for ensemble methods... Read more
The Importance of P-Values in Data Science

The Importance of P-Values in Data Science

ModelingStatisticsposted by Daniel Gutierrez, ODSC February 26, 2019

The field of data science makes use of concepts from a variety of disciplines, particularly computer science, mathematics, and applied statistics. One term that keeps popping up in data science circles (including many interviews for data scientist employment positions) is “p-value” which comes from statistics. This term is frequently... Read more
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