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Oct 6: Ethical AI: Darth Vader and the Cowardly Lion

Can we trust anything we see? Or hear? Last week saw the news that James Earl Jones was retiring from his role voicing Darth Vader in the Star Wars franchise, and farming it out to AI. Brief musings follow.Specifically, Jones was licensing the rights to his voice to Lucasfilm so they could recreate the voiceContinue reading “Oct 6: Ethical AI: Darth Vader and the Cowardly Lion”

Oct 19: Data Literacy – The Chainsaw Case

“In the age of Big Data we often believe that our predictions about the future are better than ever before. But …in the real world, we often get better results by using simple rules and considering less information.” (From a review of Gerd Gigerenzer’s Data Savvy) The Introduction to Data Literacy course, taught by Veronica Carlan, is your entryContinue reading “Oct 19: Data Literacy – The Chainsaw Case”

Aug 5: AI success does not always lead to business success

  This week we look at several case studies where success on the AI front was not sufficient to assure longer term business success. Our course spotlight is on: Aug 20 – Sep 17: Introduction to Design of Experiments Learn how to design experiments (especially costly ones) in ways that yield the most information for theContinue reading “Aug 5: AI success does not always lead to business success”

July 22: Odds and Betting

  This week we look at odds and betting; our course spotlights are July 23 -Aug 20: SQL – Responsible Data ScienceJuly 30 -Aug 27: SQL – Biostatistics 1 – For Medical Science and Public Health See you in class! – Peter BruceFounder of The Institute for Statistics Education at Statistics.com …………………………….. News You Need to Know What’sContinue reading “July 22: Odds and Betting”

June 2: From Data Science to Data Engineering

  This week we look at the increasingly important role of data engineers. Our spotlight is on our Programming for Data Science certificate program -you can start in July with July 9 -Aug 6: SQL – Introduction to Database Queries See you in class! – Peter BruceFounder of The Institute for Statistics Education at Statistics.com …………………………….. NewsContinue reading “June 2: From Data Science to Data Engineering”

May 5: Deceptive Data Leaks

  This week we discuss data leaks, which can render apparently well-performing machine learning models useless. Our spotlight is on the Thomas Edison University Data Science Analytics Master’s Program, which was developed in partnership with Statistics.com See you in class! – Peter BruceFounder of The Institute for Statistics Education at Statistics.com …………………………….. News You Need toContinue reading “May 5: Deceptive Data Leaks”

March 9: Statistics and Data Science in Practice

  This week we spotlight our introductory statistics courses, and take a look at supposed “need to know” statistical concepts for data science. See you in class! – Peter BruceFounder of The Institute for Statistics Education at Statistics.com …………………………….. News You Need to Know What’s happening in the field of Data Science, Analytics, Statistics? STATISTICS INContinue reading “March 9: Statistics and Data Science in Practice”

Feb 23: Statistics and Data Science in Practice

  This week we look at a backdoor method to make predictions come true. Our student spotlight is on Staci Taylor, Assistant Prof. of Nursing at Southeastern Louisiana State Univ., and our featured programs are: Analytics for Data Science Biostatistics See you in class! – Peter BruceFounder of The Institute for Statistics Education at Statistics.com ……………………………..Continue reading “Feb 23: Statistics and Data Science in Practice”

Aug 4: Statistics in Practice

In this week’s brief, we feature a data-detective story: The Case of the Faulty Generator.  Our spotlight is on our Analytics for Data Science certificate program*. See you in class! *Earn a Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science and Analytics concurrently at Thomas Edison State University. Peter Bruce Founder, Author, and Senior Scientist Sira-Kvina Hydro PowerContinue reading “Aug 4: Statistics in Practice”

July 21: Statistics in Practice

In this week’s brief, a continuation of our “Statistical Thinking” series, we reflect on three “myths” in data science and statistics, and spotlight our ten-course Social Science Statistics certificate program. You can get started with either of these courses: Aug 7- Sep 4:  Survey Design and Sampling Procedures Oct 2 – 30:  Regression Analysis See youContinue reading “July 21: Statistics in Practice”