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Everyday Statistics, with Eddie Davila

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Learn how to decode the statistics that pop up on a daily basis—from political polls to football scores. Eddie Davila explores a different real-world topic each week.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • The statistics of everyday life
Previous Installments
  • Political polls
  • Different sports, different stats
  • Test scores
  • Data collection
  • Birthdays in the USA
  • The house always wins
  • Wisdom of the crowd
  • The pay gap at Uber
  • Cancer survival rates
  • Television ratings
  • Historic stats stories
  • The one percent
  • New Year's Eve
  • Influenza
  • Winter is coming
  • The Super Bowl
  • Genetics
  • Relationships
  • The box office
  • Unemployment
  • Waiting in lines
  • Sleep
  • March Madness
  • Measuring what's important in business
  • Baseball
  • Income tax statistics
  • College waiting lists
  • The normal distribution is everywhere
  • Horse racing statistics
  • Statistics and the insurance industry
  • Restaurant statistics
  • Catching criminals with statistics
  • Getting directions from statistics
  • Lyme disease
  • Quality control in manufacturing
  • Zoo animal statistics
  • Earthquakes
  • Statistics of hunting
  • Transcontinental convoy
  • Moon landing
  • Summer movies
  • Reliability
  • Woodstock
  • Hurricanes
  • P-hacking
  • Salaries
  • Dow Jones
  • Population
  • Epidemiology
  • Rock stars
  • Acceptance sampling
  • The value of my change
  • In-game win probabilities
  • Stock market ups and downs
  • Prohibition
  • Bayes' theorem
  • Divorce
  • The U.S. Census
  • English
  • Santa Claus
  • Parenting
  • Proportions of coins
  • Safe travel
  • Election polling methodologies
  • Is your data any good?
  • Storytelling with data
  • The middle of my data
  • The ubiquitous bell curve
  • Decoding polling results
  • What is an outlier?
  • Statistical bias
  • The importance of regression analysis
  • Understanding probabilities
  • Statistics tools
  • Modern organizations use statistics
  • Combinations
  • Measuring variation
  • Sample space
  • Election win probabilities
  • Cognitive bias
  • Forecasting
  • Toilet paper
  • Winning streaks
  • Coffee
  • Vaccines
  • Superfans
  • US Presidents
  • The cost of owning a pet
  • Funny movies
  • Success in the music industry
  • Home Improvement
  • Youth sports
  • Mental health
  • Chocolate
  • Baby statistics
  • Books
  • Commutes
  • Farms
  • Hip hop
  • Mass transit
  • Major league baseball
  • Placebos
  • Podcasts
  • Social media
  • Supply chains

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Eddie Davila

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