Category Archives: Statistics

Classifying and visualizing with fastText and tSNE

Posted on December 11, 2017 by jsilter

Previously I wrote a three-part series on classifying text, in which I walked through the creation of a text classifier from the bottom up. It was interesting but it was purely an academic exercise. Here I’m going to use methods … Continue reading →

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Protected: Estimating active reddit users

Posted on October 18, 2015 by jsilter

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Some musings on statistics

Posted on May 28, 2015 by jsilter

A) Beware of The Wrong Summary Statistics SlateStarCodex had a pretty interesting post entitle “Beware of Summary Statistics“, showing how they can be misleading. This isn’t exactly new, there are famous examples of how just looking at the mean and standard deviation greatly … Continue reading →

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