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With more and more data being pushed online, the requirement of asynchronous web scraping services is at an all-time high. Many businesses are relying on the data-driven methodologies to… Read More »Asynchronous Web Scraping using Python

This simple picture shows the differences between descriptive statistics and Inferential statistics.  More information about Descriptive and Inferential Statistics: What is “Descriptive Statistics”? What is… Read More »Descriptive vs. Inferential Statistics in One Picture

I introduce here a family of very peculiar statistical distributions governed by two parameters: p, a real number in [0, 1], and b, an integer… Read More »A Strange Family of Statistical Distributions

What if you had a corporate asset that was never used?  Your first response might be that corporate asset obviously has no value.  And you’d… Read More »Untapped Economic Assets? How to Monetize Your Dark Data

In 1956, American Computer specialist John McCarthy created the Dartmouth Conference, at which the term Artificial Intelligence was first adopted. Researchers Allen Newell and Herbert… Read More »7 Facts That Nobody Told You About Artificial Intelligence

The use of training, validation and test datasets is common but not easily understood.  In this post, I attempt to clarify this concept. The post… Read More »Three-way data splits (training, test and validation) for model selection and performance estimation

The problem with Cambridge Analytica is not the privacy breach TL;DR: Echo chambers created by CA or other political marketing firms are bad for democracy,… Read More »The problem with Cambridge Analytica is not (just) the privacy breach