AP Statistics taught me plenty about boxplots, bar charts and probability density functions. But it was the Kaggle.com, a website that runs machine-learning contests, that showed me the predictive power of statistical analysis. From a project looking at how title predicted survival rates on the Titanic (Misses more likely to survive than Misters) to creating an algorithm to classify emojis of ghouls, ghosts, and goblins, I saw just how widely statistical skills could be applied. That lit up my interest…
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