ComputingApril 10, 2019
A Deep Dive into Deep Learning
A personal journey to understand what lies beneath the startling powers of advanced neural networks
Stories by Peter Bruce
Peter Bruce founded The Institute for Statistics Education at Statistics.com in 2002. He is a co-author of "Data Mining for Business Analytics" (Wiley), and "Practical Statistics for Data Scientists: 50 Essential Concepts" (O'Reilly,2017), the author of "Introductory Statistics and Analytics: A Resampling Perspective" (Wiley), and the co-developer of Resampling Stats software.
ComputingApril 18, 2018
The Facebook Controversy: Privacy Is Not the Issue
The real danger is that the information and social platforms on the internet are being corrupted in the service of con men, political demagogues and thieves
PolicyNovember 1, 2017
Are Scientists Doing Too Much Research?
It sounds almost absurd, but that could be one factor behind the so-called “reproducibility crisis”
BehaviorMarch 2, 2017
When the Big Lie Meets Big Data
The same techniques used to identify and motivate likely voters can also be used to spread false information
PolicyJuly 22, 2016
Are Statistics Still Useful in Politics?
Trump's nomination might suggest otherwise—but a new paper helps refute that idea