Tyler Vigen is a cool guy. He runs the spurious correlations website where he allows visitors to check out all the correlations between all kinds of statistics. This is not the most important reason why Tyler is a cool guy… It is the fact after that his website went viral, his contribution to understanding statistics for the public is quite important. And all that for somebody without a statistics background. In his own words
I’m not a math or statistics major (and there are better ways to calculate correlation than I do here), but I do have a love for science and discovery and that’s all anyone should need. Presently I am working on my J.D. at Harvard Law School.
if you hav the time, check his video in which his fondness of science is quite visible. The classic case of smoking and lung cancer is also discussed.
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