Can we trust anything we see? Or hear? Last week saw the news that James Earl Jones was retiring from his role voicing Darth Vader in the Star Wars franchise, and farming it out to AI. Brief musings follow.Specifically, Jones was licensing the rights to his voice to Lucasfilm so they could recreate the voiceContinue reading "Oct 6: Ethical AI: Darth Vader and the Cowardly Lion" The post Oct 6: Ethical AI: Darth Vader and the Cowardly Lion appeared first on Statistics.com: Data Science, Analyt...| Statistics.com: Data Science, Analytics & Statistics Courses
“In the age of Big Data we often believe that our predictions about the future are better than ever before. But …in the real world, we often get better results by using simple rules and considering less information.” (From a review of Gerd Gigerenzer’s Data Savvy) The Introduction to Data Literacy course, taught by Veronica Carlan, is your entryContinue reading "Oct 19: Data Literacy – The Chainsaw Case" The post Oct 19: Data Literacy – The Chainsaw Case appeared first on Stat...| Statistics.com: Data Science, Analytics & Statistics Courses
This week we look at several case studies where success on the AI front was not sufficient to assure longer term business success. Our course spotlight is on: Aug 20 – Sep 17: Introduction to Design of Experiments Learn how to design experiments (especially costly ones) in ways that yield the most information for theContinue reading "Aug 5: AI success does not always lead to business success" The post Aug 5: AI success does not always lead to business success appeared first on Statistics.c...| Statistics.com: Data Science, Analytics & Statistics Courses
This week we look at odds and betting; our course spotlights are July 23 -Aug 20: SQL – Responsible Data ScienceJuly 30 -Aug 27: SQL – Biostatistics 1 – For Medical Science and Public Health See you in class! – Peter BruceFounder of The Institute for Statistics Education at Statistics.com …………………………….. News You Need to Know What’sContinue reading "July 22: Odds and Betting" The post July 22: Odds and Betting appeared first on Statistics.com: Data Science, An...| Statistics.com: Data Science, Analytics & Statistics Courses