Tanner
@oxyppgyn.bsky.social
UG Biology and Geography @ OhioU (formerly)
Interested in landscape ecology, camera traps, citizen + collaborative science, spatial dynamics of mammals, and computational ecology
Interested in landscape ecology, camera traps, citizen + collaborative science, spatial dynamics of mammals, and computational ecology
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A presentation I did a while back (2015!) for first-year u/g math students about interesting stuff in math biology (apologies for PPTX & ugly eqns; a few of the figures are messed up in LibreOffice) - mostly showing fun pattern-formation pictures www.math.mcmaster.ca/bolker/misc/...
www.math.mcmaster.ca
December 18, 2024 at 7:01 PM
A presentation I did a while back (2015!) for first-year u/g math students about interesting stuff in math biology (apologies for PPTX & ugly eqns; a few of the figures are messed up in LibreOffice) - mostly showing fun pattern-formation pictures www.math.mcmaster.ca/bolker/misc/...
Maybe having them find random correlations in unrelated data akin to this page:
www.tylervigen.com/spurious-cor...
I'd say it's decently silly but still teaches a good lesson about how stats can be incorrect when you don't consider the context of your data
www.tylervigen.com/spurious-cor...
I'd say it's decently silly but still teaches a good lesson about how stats can be incorrect when you don't consider the context of your data
Spurious Correlations
Correlation is not causation: thousands of charts of real data showing actual correlations between ridiculous variables.
www.tylervigen.com
November 21, 2024 at 1:26 AM
Maybe having them find random correlations in unrelated data akin to this page:
www.tylervigen.com/spurious-cor...
I'd say it's decently silly but still teaches a good lesson about how stats can be incorrect when you don't consider the context of your data
www.tylervigen.com/spurious-cor...
I'd say it's decently silly but still teaches a good lesson about how stats can be incorrect when you don't consider the context of your data