After being roped in by my teenaged daughter, I've been playing a lot of Umamusume lately. It's a Japanese gacha game about ...

UPDATE from original 7/10/17 version to 9/14/17 version: I erroneously maligned confidence intervals for models of big datasets, conflating...

It's been quite a while since I last posted—and eight months since I finished the class I'm reviewing. As it happens, I finally got...

I recently ran across an intriguing blog post from Michael Malek, on "Predatory Data Science" . Malek notes that data science met...

For my first course on Udacity , I decided to take Intro to Hadoop and MapReduce , a course created in conjunction with Cloudera , a company...

Back in May, I reviewed two of the short courses that make up Coursera 's Data Science specialization. Although the four-week format ...

And now, one more word on the subject of R's speed. At my prodding, Tommy Jones contacted the authors of the study on programming langu...