Obsession with Regression

Sunday, May 18, 2014

In Which I Try To Escape Statistics At The Symphony

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Lately I've been working on two statistical projects to do with gender and have consequently gotten a little obsessed with gender issues...
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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Mothers, be Good to Your Daughters

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In honor of Mother's Day, at 23andMe we took a look at how our traits correlate with our parents' using 15,000 father-mother-child t...
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Saturday, April 12, 2014

How to Fail Repeatedly

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As a followup to the FiveThirtyEight piece , you can find some visualizations of eHarmony couples here . Each circle represents a person o...
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Wednesday, April 2, 2014

The Perilous Power of Parkinson's

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Today 23andMe released some statistical analysis I've done on their Parkinson's data, although I'm just the stats nerd on the p...
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Sunday, March 9, 2014

Chasing Gender Equality in Education

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In honor of International Women’s Day, Coursera released an analysis of gender equality in education which I began as an intern last summ...
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Spock Women and Romeo Men

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You can read about the five types of lovers, with thanks to my many creative friends who came up with names for them and Yang Su for data,...
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Thursday, February 20, 2014

The Power of Correlation Matrices: What do Executions, Cocktails, and Genetic Networks Have in Common?

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Correlation matrices are like the lover you just can’t let go: complex and deceitful, but too irresistibly fascinating to abandon. A year ...
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Emma Pierson
I love using statistics to make sense of the world. I'm at Stanford doing a PhD in computer science after spending a year studying statistics at Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship and a year as a researcher at Coursera and 23andMe.
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