So this blog was inspired by John Rauser’s keynote talk at the Strata + Hadoop world conference this year. John’s premise is that doing statistics is actually quite simple and anyone with access to a computer and a programming language can craft statistical tests and ask all the meaningful questions that constitute the core of data science.

This blog also stems from the conviction that in order to know how much you understand some statistical theory, you should try to explain it in lay terms, extract its actual meaning and see whether it actually makes sense… if it doesn’t, then you either don’t understand it well enough or you have to use more your intuition rather than your definitions….

Here is the video, enjoy and be inspired!