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Power to the Data Report Podcast: The Math Behind the Models

insideBIGDATA

Hello, and welcome to the “Power-to-the-Data Report” podcast where we cover timely topics of the day from throughout the Big Data ecosystem. Today’s topic is “The Math Behind the Models,” one of my favorite topics when I'm teaching my Introduction to Data Science class at UCLA.

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Happiness ratings, by country and age

FlowingData

They focused on age and happiness this year. The visualizations are clinical, which is kind of sad given the topic of the report. The World Happiness Report, published each year since 2012, just dropped for 2024. Overall, the United States ranked in the range from 17 to 29 among all countries, but was worse for young people.

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An analysis of studies pertaining to masks from 1978 to 2023

Hacker News

Mask policies during COVID is one topic that has been highly influenced by data published in the MMWR. All geographic regions and age groups were represented. Objective To describe and evaluate the nature and methodology of the reports and appropriateness of conclusions in MMWR pertaining to masks. 0/77 were randomized studies.

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Task-based effectiveness of basic visualizations

KDnuggets

This is a summary of a recent paper on an age-old topic: what visualisation should I use? Is this the paper to finally settle the age-old debate surrounding pie-charts?? No prizes for guessing “it depends!”

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Things I wish I’d known before fulltime RVing (2017)

Hacker News

See my updates in italics below the original text on each topic. One of the beautiful things about aging is you carry along the… Although this post was written in 2011 it's still my most popular post ever (!!), so I'm refreshing it as part of our 8th year on the road.

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A network approach to topic models

Flipboard

One of the main computational and scientific challenges in the modern age is to extract useful information from unstructured texts. Topic models are …

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Master cybersecurity from anywhere: 10 online cybersecurity courses to look out for

Data Science Dojo

The program covers topics such as cybersecurity strategy, risk management, and incident response. Harvard’s Cybersecurity: Managing Risk in the Information Age This course is offered through edX and is taught by Harvard professors. The course covers topics such as risk management, cryptography, and cybersecurity regulations.