Blog Statistics
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Multimodal Priors for Binomial Data
LingPipe Blog —
Authority: 112
Andrey Rzhetsky gave me some great feedback on my talk at U. Chicago. I want to address one of the points he rasied in this blog post: What if the prior is multimodal? This is a reasonable question. When you look at the Mechanical Turk annotation data we have, sensitivities and specificities are suggestively ...3 days ago -
Bayesian Statistics – Conclusion
Mindshare Strategy —
Authority: 127
People groan whenever I bring up statistics in relation to marketing theory. In reality, though, most marketing decisions are made based on numbers. Without some level of smart statistical analysis, you can’t make an informed decision based on your data and all of those research dollars are wasted. Given, the ...2 weeks ago -
Probability Measures and Random Variables
LingPipe Blog —
Authority: 112
I introduced measure theory in my last post, Measure Theory in Two Definitions . With that out of the way, we can move on to probability measures and random variables. Probability Measure A probability measure is a measure taking values in the closed interval and mapping the unit to 1, . It follows that . ...2 weeks ago -
November 2009 Recap and Contest
The Constant Complainer —
Authority: 116
I’ve learned a lot of blogging tips over the last year and a half from Extreme John . And the one I most recently embraced was doing a monthly recap. The Constant Complainer had a good month of November. Here are some quick statistics: Unique visitors were up 11%. Total visitors were up 7%. I’ll never ...2 weeks ago -
Bayesian Statistics – Part IV
Mindshare Strategy —
Authority: 127
Understanding the Bayesian average is one thing. Understanding how to calculate it is something different. Understanding how to apply it is something in a whole other league. So here’s a quick and simple case study regarding product feedback and comparing aggregate product ratings using Bayesian statistics. ...2 weeks ago -
Measure Theory in Two Definitions
LingPipe Blog —
Authority: 112
Measure theory generalizes the notion of length, area and volume to a very general topological setting. It also forms the basis of probability theory. Definition 1 A -algebra is a set of sets which is closed under difference, if , is closed under countable unions, if , and has a unit such that ...2 weeks ago -
Bayesian Statistics – Part III
Mindshare Strategy —
Authority: 127
A traditional average is easy to understand. If you take a group of people, add their heights together and divide by the number of people in the group, you know the average height. A simple average is a relatively easy way to create a prediction for future behavior – in many cases, you can reasonably assume a ...2 weeks ago -
70 Usable Stats From The 2009 State Of The Blogosphere
The Future Buzz —
Authority: 520
The annual state of the blogosphere report provided by Technorati always provides a ton of interesting information for bloggers, marketers and PR pros to use and reuse. My only issue with it is they make us read through pages upon pages of content to get at the good bits, and don’t provide a list of just the ...2 weeks ago -
Bayesian Statistics – Part II
Mindshare Strategy —
Authority: 127
Most statistics are based on solid, static data. The average for a group of numbers is independent of what numbers are actually included in the group. Statistics give us a snapshot of our data so we can make high-level decisions based on it without knowing the details of each discrete measurement. This ...2 weeks ago -
Computing Marginal Channel Probabilities with Generalized Needleman-Wunsch
LingPipe Blog —
Authority: 112
In my last post on Probabilistic Edit Channel Models , I tried to motivate a properly calculated marginal probability of an observation (e.g., a read) given a source (e.g., a reference sequence). In this post, I’ll show you how to build a properly normalized probabilistic generalization of the well-known ...2 weeks ago -
Bayesian Statistics – Part I
Mindshare Strategy —
Authority: 127
In our careers as marketers we are often presented with problems that require some kind of statistical analysis. One of the most frequently-faced issues is that of content or quality ratings. Let’s say your company produces 5 different widgets. You ask 100 of your customers to rate these widgets and ask them to ...2 weeks ago -
November 2009 Traffic & Income Statistics
Michael Aulia -Technology and Reviews —
Authority: 130
Last month’s traffic statistics: 57,796 unique visitors and 77,732 page views . Traffic details: Referring sites: 32,632 visitors. Search engines: 19,330 visitors. Direct traffic: 5,709 visitors. Other: 125 visitors. Referring sites breakdown All thanks to my Office 2010 Beta post that received ...3 weeks ago -
Optimize your blog’s loading speed with Google’s Site Performance Tool
Blogging Pro —
Authority: 498
In their on-going effort to make the web faster, Google has just recently announced an experimental Webmaster Tools feature called Site Performance which shows how your site performs in terms of loading time and gives suggestions on how to make it more faster. You can access this new feature on your Google ...3 weeks ago -
Bill Belichick Was Right
Unlikely Words —
Authority: 630
Photo by Flickr user Keith Allison People in Boston have been spoiled by our sports teams this decade. The Red Sox have won 2 World Series, the Patriots have been dominant since 2001, and even the Celtics got involved in the world beating. The Patriots and the Red Sox have been so good that the phrases, “In Bill ...5 weeks ago

