Computational Journalism, Spring 2013, Lecture 7: Drawing Conclusions from Data
Channel: HKU Journalism & Media
Date: 2013-02-15

What does randomness look like? Variation from rolling dice. Base rate fallacy. Conditional probability. Bayes' theorem. Cognitive biases. Method of competing hypotheses. Probabilistic scoring of hypotheses. Correlation and causation. Finding alternate hypotheses for the NYPD stop and frisk data.

Instructor: Jonathan Stray
Course blog: http://jmsc.hku.hk/courses/jmsc6041spring2013/