Beard length A/B testing on #Tinder


https://appsciencing.wordpress.com/2018/11/19/beard-studies/

#abtest #statistics #practicalML

​​Building Automated Feature Rollouts on Robust Regression Analysis

Nice article on important thing — statistical analysis of hypothesis testing. Every new feature or change made to existent one is basically an experiment. Article covers how #Uber team handles this in live system.

Link: https://eng.uber.com/autonomous-rollouts-regression-analysis/

#Uber #statistics #production #truestory

A visual exploration of Gaussian Processes: beautiful interactive plots and a brief tutorial to make GPs more approachable

Link: https://www.jgoertler.com/visual-exploration-gaussian-processes/

#Statistics #GP #GaussianProcesses

Evaluating gambles using dynamics

Link: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.4940236

#Statistics #Gambling

Valuing Life as an Asset, as a Statistic and at Gunpoint

Ever wondered, how much your life is worth? This is an article about Life as an asset evaluation. It is extremely useful for insuarance companies and as a metric to calculate compensations in case of tragic events, but it is also a key to understand, how valuable (or not) life is.

Math is beautiful.

Link: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3156911

#math #life #insurance #statistics

​​IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle

Note by Nassim Taleb on how IQ works. He shows that high-IQ is not well-correlated with wealth or overall cognitive performance.

Link: https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39

#statistics #iq #fallacy

​​#vizualization #statistics

​​Fair Regression for Health Care Spending

What happens, if fairness built into the objective function for continuous outcomes & see large improvements in group undercompensation?

This is the most interesting & potentially impactful analysis of fairness in #ML for #healthcare, which can lead to significant improvement in the life of millions.

ArXiV: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.10566
GitHub: https://github.com/zinka88/Fair-Regression

#statistics #regression

​​Why Financial Planning is Exciting… At Least for a Data Scientist

Great introduction into the finance world and what data scientist can lack diving into the topic.

Link: https://eng.uber.com/financial-planning-for-data-scientist/

#Financial #statistics #Uber

Probabilistic foundations of econometrica: part 1

Great intro into #statistics basics.

Link: https://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/57649

#beginner #novice #entrylevel