Binomial proportions in the wild! Data Quality on Humongous Data

<Disclaimer: my opinions are my own. Situations depicted in this blog are not intended to depict any former, current or future employer, or any particular person or minority> Nature is beautiful. Can we make sense of the forest while still keeping track of the sick trees? Forest Photo by Jeroen Bendeler on StockSnap Tuesday morning. […]

Turn the world into a board game with H3 and Public Data – Part I

How many of you ever played a game called Civilization? To those who have not, it’s an amazing game of strategy in which you play a civilization with certain beliefs and features. There is a PC, console and a board game version. In the PC game you start as a single settler unit, found a […]

Useful rules of thumb for bounding random variables (Part 1)

In a previous post we were discussing the pros and cons of parametric and non-parametric models, and how they can complement each other. In this post, we will add a little more into the story. More specifically, we are going to talk about bounds to the probability that a random variable deviates from its expectation. In these […]