PickVidsBest Data science & statistics Videos
The 56 Data science & statistics videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 9 introductory, 12 intermediate, 32 for a general viewer, and 3 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include Veritasium, Enthought, Stand-up Maths.
Survivor Bias
A Veritasium video on survivor bias, explaining how an observed sample can be incomplete and skewed.
Correlation CAN Imply Causation! | Statistics Misconceptions
A four-minute minutephysics video arguing that causal models and causal networks let statistics infer causation from correlation.
Todd Snider - Statistician's Blues
A live 2007 performance of Todd Snider's song 'Statistician's Blues' at the Great American Music Hall.
Red Bead Experiment with Dr. W. Edwards Deming
Excerpts from W.
Freeman Dyson - Fermi's rejection of our work (94/157)
Freeman Dyson recounts how Enrico Fermi rejected his team's meson scattering model, noting that it had too many free parameters.
Why was Biden's win calculated to be ONE IN A QUADRILLION?
Matt Parker of Stand-up Maths examines the Texas Supreme Court filing claiming Biden's 2020 win had a one-in-a-quadrillion chance.
For and Against National Service | Yes, Prime Minister | Comedy Greats
A Yes, Prime Minister scene in which Sir Humphrey shows how leading questions can make a poll produce either answer on national service.
Scene from Moneyball - What is the problem?
A scene from Moneyball in which Brad Pitt's character argues with scouts who pick players on intangible impressions instead of performance data.