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Why Are so Many Babies Born around 8:00 A.M.?

Zan Armstrong

Unpacking how schedules and methods of birth influence the birthday timestamp in the US, featuring cool data visualizations.

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Mean Squared Terror

Vincent D. Warmerdam

On the risks associated with blindly relying on GridSearch.

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How I Became a Data Scientist Despite Having Been a Math Major

Tim Hopper

"Given this description of how my schooling left me woefully unprepared for a career in data science, one might ask how I have had two jobs with that title. I can think of several (though probably not all) reasons."

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