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community April 19, 2021

How often do people actually copy and paste from Stack Overflow? Now we know.

April Fool's may be over, but once we set up a system to react every time someone typed Command+C, we realized there was also an opportunity to learn about how people use our site. Here’s what we found.

Ben Popper and David Gibson

code-for-a-living March 9, 2021

Level Up: Mastering statistics with Python – part 5

Rather than dig into complex math or over-simplify by using a pre-written function, we'll write our own binomial test function, primarily using base Python. In the process, we'll learn more about how hypothesis testing works and build intuition for how to interpret a p-value.

Ben Popper and Sophie Sommer

code-for-a-living February 23, 2021

Level Up: Mastering statistics with Python – part 2

Investigate a dataset with summary statistics and some basic data visualizations using the Python libraries NumPy, pandas, matplotlib, and Seaborn.

Ben Popper and Sophie Sommer

code-for-a-living February 16, 2021

Level Up: Mastering statistics with Python

In today’s tech industry, statistics and data science are becoming increasingly important and valuable skills.

Ben Popper Director of Content

code-for-a-living October 12, 2020

How to put machine learning models into production

The goal of building a machine learning model is to solve a problem, and a machine learning model can only do so when it is in production and actively in use by consumers. As such, model deployment is as important as model building.

Rising Odegua

insights August 8, 2019

DEF CON and Stack Overflow: What Our Traffic Says About Cybersecurity Technologies

Stack Overflow traffic during DEF CON shows what technologies are trending in the hacker community

Julia Silge Data Scientist (former)

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