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Tirthajyoti Sarkar Tirthajyoti Sarkar
Updated on January 24, 2023

What Is Benford’s Law and Why Is It Important?

Benford’s Law tells us about the expected distribution of significant digits in a diverse set of naturally occurring data sets. Here’s why that’s important.

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Jye Sawtell-Rickson Jye Sawtell-Rickson
Updated on January 23, 2023

What Is the Fibonacci Sequence?

The Fibonacci sequence is a series of numbers in which each number equals the sum of the two that precede it. For example, 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 and so on.

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Richmond Alake Richmond Alake
Updated on January 19, 2023

Understanding Cosine Similarity and Its Applications

Understand the basics behind the technique cosine similarity that is used across different fields and domains of machine learning.

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Erdem İŞBİLEN Erdem İŞBİLEN
Updated on January 12, 2023

What Is the Law of Large Numbers?

The law of large numbers helps us make predictions about the long-term behavior of a random variable based on a large number of experiments. Here’s how it works.

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Eryk Lewinson Eryk Lewinson
Updated on January 11, 2023

What Are Violin Plots and How Do You Use Them?

Violin plots are a method of plotting numeric data. Learn how to interpret them and what their advantages are over boxplots.

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Rajeev Dutt Rajeev Dutt
Updated on January 11, 2023

Should AI Be Used to Interpret Human Emotions?

It might do more harm than good.

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Hal Koss Hal Koss
Updated on January 11, 2023

Fantasy Football Analytics: How Data Science Took Over the Game

Anecdotes ruled fantasy football conversations. Then the math nerds crashed the party.

Linda Ngo Linda Ngo
Updated on January 10, 2023

The Ultimate Guide to Logical Operators in R

A deep dive into logical operators in R. Learn how to change or compare results of comparisons made using relational operators with NOT, OR and AND in R.

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Cassie Kozyrkov Cassie Kozyrkov
Updated on December 28, 2022

Statistics: Are You Bayesian or Frequentist?

Is your statistical alignment Bayesian or a Frequentist? It all comes down to random variables. Learn more.

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