statistics
Data Walk Update
Hello mathematicians, puzzlers, and other curious people! It\’s taken me a little while to get to this, but I finally collected some data from a quick walk today. I\’m going to leave the whole dataset publicly viewable as I add to it, but here\’s what I got today: If you click into the spreadsheet you\’ll…
Free books and classes!
Hello mathematicians, puzzlers, and other curious people! You may have already perused Springer\’s free ebook offerings (see the link to them in the distance learning section of the referral page if you haven\’t) — if not, make sure you do, because some of them are not to be missed and the free download opportunity won\’t…
Data From a Walk
Hello mathematicians, puzzlers, and other curious people! Today I have for you an experiment that anyone who can count and walk can do, but which, the first time it was done and kept track of, by Gauss, made a big difference to our understanding of statistics and measurement. First you need to pick a place…
Epidemiology on Coursera
Hello mathematicians, puzzlers, and other curious people! I\’ve just signed up for a class on the statistics application problem we\’re all leaving in, Fighting COVID-19 with Epidemiology, put on by Johns Hopkins (who you may know, relevant to this, from that famous map webapp). It\’s free, and the relevance for everyone is obvious — but…