John Geer
I build things with statistics, code, and prose.
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How to Tell When You Have Enough Data to Act
Statistical principles for decision making
How to Analyze Your Predictable Data: Anomaly Detection
Noticing unexpected observations among an ocean of expected ones.
Featured on DataScienceCentral.com and @analyticbridge.
Customer Retention with Statistical Learning
Predicting if customers plan to leave and finding the best intervention
Using Data Science to Estimate Annual Cycles in Housing
Even in the housing market, some things are predictable.
This post was featured on DataScienceCentral.com.
Probability Distribution Family Tree
How probability distributions are related
US Federal Outlays & Receipts
It’s how they say spending and income.
How the US Budget Changes
Received the “Deep Thought Badge” and Honorable Mention in Google & Eyebeam’s Data Visualization Challenge.
TED Views Predictor
A predictive model that uses the title, topic, and publish date of TED talks to estimate the number of times they will be viewed.
Genetic Prediction Algorithm
A program that evolves a prediction model for a given data set.
Bayesian Link Aggregator
A website that ranks links based on votes. It aims to learn the most from each vote by selecting which articles visitors vote on and using a Bayesian estimator.
Interesting hack for following a topic HN-style […]
Hilary Mason (@hmason), Data Scientist in Residence at Accel
I have a masters in Applied Statistics and have been excitedly coding for over a decade. My specialties include predictive analytics, machine learning, and data mining. I presently work as a remote data scientist.
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