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Risk of death related to pregnancy and childbirth more than doubled between 1999 and 2019 in the US, new study finds
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How America fell out of love with ice cream
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What the data says about food stamps in the US
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Suggestion: Show number of times a tag has been used
Roughly knowing how many times each tag has been used would provide users actionable information if they would like to search or filter by tags. It might improve UX when applying tags, but might...
Roughly knowing how many times each tag has been used would provide users actionable information if they would like to search or filter by tags.
It might improve UX when applying tags, but might have undesirable side effects in user behavior.
I can think of three places this might be implemented, and I don't know which, if any, we want:
When filtering topics by tags:
- informs users how large or small their scope is
- this view should probably be kept somewhat up to date
When looking at a topic's tags:
- informs users where to start searching/filtering
- passively builds a frame of reference for how tags are used?
- this view could be allowed to become outdated and stale without issue
When applying tags
- a more common tag might be less accurate, but it might be more helpful?
- in the auto fill issue weight by frequency was proposed, which is somewhat similar but more opaque
- this should probably use pretty recent counts as well
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Major League Baseball is making a handful of radical rule changes designed to make games faster and more action-packed
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Pornhub 2022 Year in Review
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Can anyone recommend a specific type of statistics course?
I would like to find a good Statistics course to do for myself, and also to recommend to others, down the road ... one that specifically focuses on risk, and the discrepancy between actual...
I would like to find a good Statistics course to do for myself, and also to recommend to others, down the road ... one that specifically focuses on risk, and the discrepancy between actual statistical probability vs humans' intuitive sense of risk.
I recall a quote, which The Interwebs informs me right now, came from Albert A. Bartlett ... "The Greatest Shortcoming of the Human Race Is Man’s Inability To Understand the Exponential Function".
Alternately, Mark Twain popularized (but did not originate) the saying "There are lies, damned lies, and statistics".
That's the kind of course I'm looking for, that focuses on questions like how much should we actually worry about supervolcanoes, asteroid strikes, Covid 2.0, WWIII, Trump getting re-elected, etc.
There are two parts to this. One, people often (naturally, human nature, how our brains are wired to handle Risk) obsess about a short list of risks in life that are overblown, or appear to be more of a concern than they actually are.
The other part is, some things have a very small risk of actually happening, but when considered in conjunction with the potential consequences (asteroid strikes, WWIII, global pandemic), are still worthy of aggressive efforts to prevent ... and people often focus on the first element (statistically unlikely) and dismiss or overlook the second piece (devastating consequences).
Anyway, stuff like that ... ideally an actual, hands-on MOOC-type Statistics course, but even a good youtube video or blog article would suffice.
As usual, thanks in advance.
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The REAL reason ships go missing in the Bermuda Triangle!!!
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Health in England 2015-2020
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SEA 48 - 45 DET - That's Scorigami!!
@Scorigami: SEA 48 - 45 DETFinalThat's Scorigami!! It's the 1073rd unique final score in NFL history.
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Did Sweden's controversial COVID strategy pay off? In many ways it did – but it let the elderly down
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On the hunt for ginormous effect sizes
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Macho cyberwarfare and the long game
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Chernobyl's death toll (or, how I learned to live with Chernobyl's legacy)
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‘Big’ data can be 99.98% smaller than it appears
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Crime prediction software promised to be free of biases. New data shows it perpetuates them.
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How hard is it to get counting right?
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If correlation doesn’t imply causation, then what does?
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The next great disruption is hybrid work—thoughts from Microsoft on the future of work
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Micromort
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How lucky is too lucky? The Minecraft speedrunning controversy explained.
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Mathematicians are playing a key role in fighting the pandemic by modeling different scenarios for a vaccine rollout
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How eugenics shaped statistics
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Harvard’s Chetty finds economic carnage for the poorest in the wealthiest ZIP codes
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How to think like an epidemiologist
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Study finds hydroxychloroquine may have boosted survival, but other researchers have doubts
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The Monty Hall problem
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In key US state of Florida, Trump stumbles among senior voters: Trump has virtually no path to victory without winning Florida, and older voters - which he is losing - are critical
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Why I’m not making COVID19 visualizations, and why you (probably) shouldn’t either
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COVID-19’s devastating effect on the restaurant industry
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Sharp increase in Moscow pneumonia cases fuels fears over coronavirus statistics
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As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data
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An interactive web-based dashboard to track COVID-19 in real time
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A detailed factsheet on the Coronavirus from our world in data
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Suspicious discontinuities
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Arvind Narayanan: How to recognize AI snake oil
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Big data+small bias << Small data+zero bias
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The Elephant Chart and how statistics made three of them
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US mass killings hit a record high in 2019: 'This seems to be the age of mass shootings'
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Some of the Pew Research Center's most noteworthy findings from 2019
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Grok Correlation
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GitHub's "The State of the Octoverse" report for 2019
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Muddy America: Color balancing the election map
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How many users are here now?
Just curious how popular this place is now.
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AI competitions don’t produce useful models
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Working in high performance computing? These are the stats you should know
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The why of the world
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Would Donald Trump be president if all Americans actually voted?
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Josh Hader’s fastball is baseball’s most mysterious pitch
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