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December 2024

Political Alignment and Outlook
This is the fourth in a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science, now available from Lulu.com and online booksellers.
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Reject Math Supremacy
The premise of Think Stats, and the other books in the Think series, is that programming is a tool for teaching and learning — and many ideas that are…
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Young Americans are Marrying Later or Never
Based on new data from the National Survey of Family Growth
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Multiple Regression with StatsModels
Look at predictions, not parameters
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November 2024

Hazard and Survival
Here’s a question from the Reddit statistics forum.
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Download the World in Data
Our World in Data recently announced that they are providing APIs to access their data.
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What’s a Chartist?
Recently I heard the word “chartist” for the first time in my life (that I recall).
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Comparing Distributions
This is the second is a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science which available from Lulu.com and online booksellers.
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War and Peace and Zipf’s Law
Elements of Data Science is in print now, available from Lulu.com and online booksellers.
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No, men’s views on policy haven’t really changed
So any gender gap in partisan preferences must have other roots
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