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27 May 2014
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23:32
Masterful explanation of why
those "x is correlated with y" graphs
going around the Internet
are worthless.
The gist:
It's autocorrelation with time.
Statistics can be dangerous, folks! Be careful out there.
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Effective Python
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A/B testing
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Cloud infrastructure
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