Probably Overthinking It

A blog by Allen Downey.

Monday, November 25, 2013

Six Ways Coding Teaches Math

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Last week I attended the Computer-Based Mathematics Education Summit in New York City, run by Wolfram Research and hosted at UNICEF headqua...
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Wednesday, October 2, 2013

One step closer to a two-hour marathon

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This past Sunday Wilson Kipsang ran the Berlin Marathon in 2:03:23, shaving 15 seconds off the world record.  That means it's time to ch...
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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

How to consume statistical analysis

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I am giving a talk next week for the Data Science Group in Cambridge.  It's part six of the Leading Analytics series: Building your...
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Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Are your data normal? Hint: no.

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One of the frequently-asked questions over at the statistics subreddit ( reddit.com/r/statistics ) is how to test whether a dataset is drawn...
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Thursday, July 11, 2013

The Geiger Counter problem

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I am supposed to turn in the manuscript for Think Bayes next week, but I couldn't resist adding a new chapter.  I was adding a new exerc...
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Thursday, May 30, 2013

Belly Button Biodiversity: The End Game

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In the previous installment of this saga , I admitted that my predictions had completely failed, and I outlined the debugging process I bega...
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Python Epistemology at PyCon Taiwan

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This weekend I gave a talk entitled "Python Epistemology" for PyCon Taiwan 2013.  I would have loved to be in Taipei for the talk,...
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