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I write non-technical blog posts about data science, technology, statistics and more generally about how I understand data analysis and how we use technical tools. At the moment, there are 8 blog posts.

Fake data science jobs

An investigation into all those pseudo data scientist jobs you may have come across.

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Don't try to reverse engineer the data

A reflection on the importance of understanding the data before diving into analysis.

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Statistics in our daily life

How statistics can be applied in daily life and why adopting a statistical mindset.

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Be careful when making statistics

Why every statistical calculation should be done for specific, well-defined reasons.

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Statistics are basically about finding out what is random and what is not

Statistics are helping us to determine what's random and what's not. But what do we mean by 'random'? How does that work?

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ChatGPT's metric is not truthfulness

The problem of large language models (LLMs).

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Does chatGPT regret what it says?

Because of the way language models are built, they may not regret what they have said, even though they should.

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It's not even correlation

We often confuse correlation with causality and overlook the role of chance. To understand success or groups, focus on differences and missing information, not just similarities.

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