https://nyghtowl.com/tags/statistics/ Recent content in Statistics on Nyghtowl Hugo en-us <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC BY-NC-SA 4.0</a> Fri, 31 Jan 2014 23:54:23 +0000 https://nyghtowl.com/posts/2014/01/oh-math/ Fri, 31 Jan 2014 23:54:23 +0000 https://nyghtowl.com/posts/2014/01/oh-math/ <p>This week was all about statistics and learning more python packages. It was a tough week and we covered the topic that intimidated me the most, the math.</p> <p><img src="https://nyghtowl.com/posts/2014/01/oh-math/img-01.png" alt=""></p> <p><strong>Stats</strong>I actually grew up loving math and I know I can understand it with enough focus and time spent studying. Still it was a lot of grad level content that we pretty much squeezed into a few days. There is no way to fully learn all the concepts in a week and that is a common theme throughout this class (and probably most bootcamps). Additionally, several people in the class have PhDs in STEM (science, tech, engineering &amp; math) and understand the math at a whole other level. It is definitely helpful to have students to learn from while also  making it hard to keep up in the exercises at times.</p> https://nyghtowl.com/posts/2014/01/try-data-science-except-montys-bayes-example/ Mon, 20 Jan 2014 21:45:19 +0000 https://nyghtowl.com/posts/2014/01/try-data-science-except-montys-bayes-example/ <p>Great first day at Zipfian. Definitely a different experience starting from Hackbright but some similarities. Granted there are the obvious differences of the content focus on data science vs. web application development as well as 20% women in the class vs. 100%. Plus I’m not the oldest or the youngest of the group. We have a really nice mix of people from various parts of the country and a myriad of backgrounds. Though there is a lot PhDs and/or engineering backgrounds. It was a much quieter energy to the start of the class even though you could tell there was some nervousness.</p>