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| | Introduction Information vs Data Frequency Watch out for misleading data Pie Chart Bar Chart Stacked Bars Split Bars Histograms Differences? Calculating dimensions Frequency Density? Line Graphs Averages Which average to use? Ranges Percentiles Variance Conclusion Introduction I started learning about statistics because I found myself doing a lot of operational monitoring (i.e. making systems more observable, instrumenting individual services, and monitoring that data via custom built dashboards). Althou...
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| | Hi, this is P.Y., I work as an Android Engineer at Block. As we started evaluating the performance impact of software changes, I brushed up on my statistics classes, talked to industry peers, read several papers, wrote an internal doc to help us i...
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| | [AI summary] A data scientist argues that traditional descriptive statistics like the mean and standard deviation are often poor choices for communicating data and recommends more interpretable alternatives like medians, percentiles, and visualizations.
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| The Langevin algorithm is a simple and powerful method to sample from a probability distribution. It's a key ingredient of some machine learning methods such as diffusion models and differentially private learning. In this post, I'll derive a simple convergence analysis of this method in the special case when the ...