🔥Kareem Carr 🔥
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Most people think they know what this quote means but they're dead wrong. Read this short thread to find out why: https://t.co/jjEWjjYWLp
Deciding how much to charge for consulting work can be a nightmare. Here are SIX factors I use to help me figure out my hourly rate:
Statistics is a frequently misunderstood field. Yet billion dollar decisions often ride on getting it right. THREAD: 6 myths about statistics explained in plain English:
Four reasons why I think authorship on academic papers should be more like movie credits: https://t.co/a0mjiuqgAy
Feeling a bit bummed out by all the racism I have to deal with on this site. It feels so excessive given I mostly tweet about math and statistics not politics. So many people on...
Data literacy is a crucial skill. Not just for jobs but for being an informed citizen. Here are 8 strategies that a beginner can use to get started with improving their understa...
Pursuing a statistics PhD at Harvard was one of the best decisions of my life. Statistical thinking is a superpower that gives you powerful frameworks for simplifying the complexi...
I recently said that statistics helps us understand our data in a way that machine learning does not. Use of the word "understand" proved extremely controversial. Here's a (short...
A (short) thread on why algorithms like deep learning are almost completely useless for statistics:
A lot of people were astonished to learn that covid and now monkey pox was spreading exponentially. They shouldn’t have been. Read this short thread to see why exponential growth...
"Do you believe objective reality exists?" Yes. I think careful investigation of a question using logic and data will tend to narrow the number of possible reasonable beliefs over...
In the summer of 2020, I got into a huge internet fight about math. It was such a big controversy that I ended up being profiled in Popular Mechanics. It was even discussed by the...