Category: Statistics and Metrics
Stats Rock!

In an August 2009 New York Times article, here’s what a Google mucky-muck has to say about the world of math and science:
“I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians,” said Hal Varian, chief economist at Google. “And I’m not kidding.”
Knowledge of statistics and, most importantly, how to exploit them will become an [...]

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Are you a clicker?

Cool info that I ran across from Seth Godin about where most of the internet “clicking” comes from:
Turns out that 85% of all display ad clicks come from only 8% of all internet users…  So who are these ads targeting anyway?…
Read Seth’s analysis and also the original article from Jack Loechner…

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Vacuumetrics

I was reading through my latest copy of Fortune magazine this morning, and ran across a blurb that I found interesting enough to share…
First off, the way we make progress in anything we do is by being honest with the world presents to us, and then figuring out how to interpret it properly.  So you have to have some sort [...]

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