If you read scientific studies, you'll often see the phrases 'controlled for' or 'adjusted for' to describe variables like age, income, or gender that are accounted for in their statistical analysis. What does this mean?
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Monday, December 31, 2018
Thursday, December 27, 2018
One of the theoretical benefits of labor unions is that they boost incomes overall for the majority of workers. Do the data support this?
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Monday, November 19, 2018
I wrote a simple tool that compares CNN's 2014 and 2018 midterm exit poll data.
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Sunday, November 11, 2018
I made a simple tool that converts CNN's exit poll numbers into voter demographics for each party.
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Saturday, November 3, 2018
Imagine you have a coin that is biased towards heads, and you want to make a fair (50/50) decision with it. What can you do?
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Tuesday, October 23, 2018
There's a little bar with buttons that appears when you hover at the top of a plotly graph. It is called the 'modebar'. There is essentially no documentation on customizing it, so I've typed up what I've done to help the next person who needs this.
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Monday, October 8, 2018
Luck is a massive factor in fantasy football...
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Friday, October 5, 2018
From Earth, Mars appears to move backwards sometimes. How does this happen if it's in an elliptical orbit around the Sun?
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Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Imagine you have some measurements and you want to approximate an underlying model for them. Shouldn't you pick the one that most closely matches the data?
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Friday, September 28, 2018
You normally see polls as something like 51% candidate A, 47% candidate B, and 2% other. How do you estimate a win probability from that?
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Wednesday, September 19, 2018
The rate at which radioactive atoms decay can be given as the 'half-life' and I've run into a couple of misconceptions around that so I tried simulating it.
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