April 2026
- How a Kalman filter works, in pictures (www.bzarg.com) #statistics
A very cool (and thorough) explanation of Kalman filters with great visuals.
- Perfectly Normal (www.perfectlynormal.co.uk) #statistics
I like the "surprise" interpretation of the KL divergence presented in this post. It's quite a clear way to view the KL divergence.
March 2026
- Tis the Season...to be Bayesian! (multithreaded.stitchfix.com) #bayesian-statistics#statistics#forecasting#data-science
Modeling holiday effects in timeseries forecasting is no easy feat, and this article shows how bayesian methods can really help with that. A great read!
January 2026
- Feature Selection: A Primer (ikromshi.com) #statistics
This is a very thorough review on the statistics behind the various measures used to select features when building a predictive model. Very nicely written!
September 2025
- Minesweeper thermodynamics (oscarcunningham.com) #physics#statistics
This is a really cool way to analyze the probabilities of minesweeper states from a statistical physics perspective.
May 2025
- Are you more likely to die on your birthday? (pudding.cool) #data#statistics
A fun analysis of the birthday effect using actual data and thorough methodology.
February 2025
- Bayesian Methods for Hackers (dataorigami.net) #statistics#python#bayesian-statistics
An illustrated introduction to Bayesian statistics using Jupyter notebooks. I was always confused about the difference between Bayesian and Frequentist approaches until I read this.
September 2024
- Introduction to Data Science (rafalab.dfci.harvard.edu) #statistics#data-science
An online book focusing on the fundamentals of data science (statistics, traditional machine learning). I don't know much about R (on which this book is based) but most of the theory in there is relevant for any junior data scientist.
July 2024
- A User’s Guide to Statistical Inference and Regression (mattblackwell.github.io) #statistics
Brief introductory book to essential statistics. This online book is very clear and helped me understand concepts I always found confusing.