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Gary Eimerman Gary Eimerman
Updated on April 22, 2024

Is Your Skills Development Program Measuring the Right Data?

Data is as important to crafting good learning programs as it is every other aspect of business. But what kind of data should you track?

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Maria Julia Yanzi Maria Julia Yanzi
Updated on March 26, 2024

3 Myths About Women in IT Debunked

Our expert dispels three prevalent misconceptions about women in STEM.

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Terence Shin Terence Shin
Updated on February 26, 2024

90 Data Science Interview Questions to Know

Data science interviews encompass a variety of challenging questions to test your knowledge in machine learning, probability, SQL and more. Hone your skills with these questions.

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Pau Blasco Roca Pau Blasco Roca
Updated on February 15, 2024

Life Stats: A Data Science Experiment

After collecting life stats data for a year, here’s what you can learn by applying data analysis like correlation studies, time series analysis, Fourier transform and more.

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Shivam Chaudhary Shivam Chaudhary
Updated on January 24, 2024

Why 1.5 Is Used in the IQR Rule for Outlier Detection

The 1.5 IQR rule determines that any data point that’s 1.5 IQR points below the first quartile of data or above the third quartile is an outlier. Here’s why it’s 1.5 times IQR.  

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Jeremy Zhang Jeremy Zhang
Updated on January 17, 2024

Importance Sampling Explained

Importance sampling is an approximation method that uses a mathematical transformation to take the average of all samples to estimate an expectation. Here’s how to do it.   

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Max Hilsdorf Max Hilsdorf
Updated on January 16, 2024

How to Beautify Your Matplotlib Histograms

A histogram is a common method for visualizing variable distribution. Follow these steps to beautify your histograms in Matplotlib.

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Terence Shin Terence Shin
Updated on December 21, 2023

Statistical Bias: 6 Types of Bias in Statistics

Statistical bias is when a model or statistic is unrepresentative of the population. There are six main types of bias in statistics.

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Anthony Corbo Anthony Corbo
Updated on November 07, 2023

What Is Inferential Statistics?

Inferential statistics is the practice of using sampled data to draw conclusions or make predictions about a larger sample data sample or population.

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Jørgen Veisdal Jørgen Veisdal
Updated on October 09, 2023

The Pigeonhole Principle Explained

The pigeonhole principle states that if n items are put into m containers, with n > m, then at least one container must contain more than one item.

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