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Text Mining Shakespeare's First Folio

Eric Kammers / 2021-11-05

In the age of big data, it is no surprise that the rate data is produced has exponentially increased. In 2013, research company SINTEF cited a claim that 90% of the world’s data has been created in just the past two years! While more data is created, this does not necessarily mean inferring conclusions from it has become any easier. For instance, text…

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The Galton Machine and the Normal Distribution

Shuai Huang / 2020-08-30

How to interpret the normal distribution? Let’s take a look at the Galton Machine. You may have seen this in somewhere, such as the New York Hall of Science or the Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose. The inventor was Sir Francis Galton who was a Mathematician in 19th century. When the balls are dropped from the center top of the machine,…