Obsession with Regression

Thursday, May 14, 2015

We Wrote a Paper!

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This paper describes joint work with  Alexis Battle, Sara Mostafavi, and Daphne Koller. Thanks as well to the GTEx Consortium for data. ...
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Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Does Twitter Really Give Everyone a Voice?

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My piece on this topic, which analyzes more than a dozen news events over the last year, was just published by Quartz. I think there are a ...
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Thursday, April 9, 2015

Whether You're Crazy Depends on Whether You're Female

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Recently I wrote a tongue-in-cheek piece in which I statistically analyzed 5,500 emails exchanged with my boyfriend over the past four ye...
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Saturday, February 14, 2015

Should You Go Out for a Romantic Valentine's Dinner?

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No, say the experts : the restaurants will be busier and serving new menus, producing worse food and worse service which you’ll pay more...
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Monday, January 26, 2015

How America Responded to All 339 Lines in the State of the Union

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For non-Americans: the State of the Union is an annual address in which the president outlines how the country’s doing and the agenda for t...
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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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