If you’re a graduate of economics, psychology, sociology, medicine, biostatistics, ecology, or related fields, you probably have received some training in statistics, but much less likely in machine learning. This is a problem because machine-learning algorithms are much better capable to solve many real-world applications compared with the procedures ...

One day I realized that I finally really understood what “statistical significance” means (p __ .01). I had probably heard the term hundreds of times by then. If you are still struggling with the concept, I hope it doesn’t take you this long and perhaps this post can be of help. ...

In a hospital, 9% of all patients have Covid-19. But: Among the heavy smokers among these patients, only 6% have Covid-19. What? Does smoking reduce your risk of getting Covid? Another example: I recently saw a post on Twitter with a line graph showing that, in the UK, persons aged 18 to 59 who ...

This tutorial might be for you if, e.g.: You have a lot of customer e-mails, or online-reviews on sales platforms or app stores for your product, etc., and you want to have a statistic based on the content of the texts: How many customers are complaining about a defect ...

Today we want to train a deep learning model that detects a foreground object on an image (say, a bird), automatically crops the bird and removes the background, and pastes the bird onto a new background. So we want to automate this process: Why would you want to do this? ...

Here is a screenshot of what we are going to build today. Want to see a live demo? Scroll down for the link! We are building an app that lets you upload images of birds (e.g., taken by your phone) and, with the help of a deep learning model, ...

Imagine you could: Take a picture with your phone of a bird in your backyard. Upload the foto to an app. The app tells you what kind of bird it is. In this tutorial, you will learn how to quickly build an app that does just that – using only the ...