statistics

How to Avoid Lying With Statistics (with Jeremy Weber)

Published 2024-03-05 lying weber jeremy

There's often a gap between the textbook treatment of statistics and the cookbook treatment--how to cook up the numbers when you're in the kitchen of the real w…

Web Scale Statistics – Failing with MongoDB

Published 2011-04-28 nanosec disk documents

As SoundCloud rapidly grows our initial systems need an overhaul. Our scaling strategy has been very realistic, design for 10x our current…

The Truth About Unemployment Rate Statistics with Martin North

Published 2019-04-10 nugget statistics north

Today Martin North & I discuss how unemployment rate statistics are calculated in Australia. The difference between unemployed, under employed & not looking for…

Naked Economics, Statistics, and Politics with Charles Wheelan

Published 2015-01-27 wheelan charles statistics

Charles Wheelan is a lecturer in economics at Dartmouth and has authored five books. He joins us to discuss statistics, politics, and the economy. Economics is …

Covid-19 - The Numbers with Prof. Eddie Holmes

Published 2020-06-07 eddie prof holmes

Pandemics are complex so we rely on statistics to manage them. So how come the numbers vary so much around the world? Dr Karl asks Virology Professor Holmes why…

Statistics in AI with Montserrat Gonzalez

Published 2017-07-11 montserrat gonzalez statistics

Statistics and Machine Learning are two fields that have advanced Artificial Intelligence. Montserrat Gonzalez, Software Engineer at Google, explains the differ…