Analytics Stories

Index

• A
• A/B testing
  • about, 363–364
  • Excel calculations, 366–368
  • improving Obama's fundraising (2008), 364–365
  • mechanics of resampling, 365–366
• absolute intergenerational mobility, 74
• accuracy
  • measuring forecast, 185
  • money line vs. computers, 188–189
  • of prediction markets, 262–263
• acoustic fingerprint
  • about, 429–430
  • artificial intelligence and songwriting, 433–435
  • Hit Song Science, 431–432
  • Shazam app, 430–431
• actively managed investment fund, 170
• additive bias, 184
• adjusted plus/minus (APM), 104
• adjusting, for family income, 86
• admission rate, determining by gender/major, 101, 102
• AGCT (Army General Classification Test), 193
• age weighting, 162–163
• AI (artificial intelligence), songwriting and, 433–435
• air pollution, 287
• Alexander, Lamar, 355–356
• AliveCor, 239
• “All Sizzle and No Steak: Value-Added Model Doesn't Add Value in Houston” (Amrein-Beardsley and Geiger), 93
• “All Weather Fund,” 383
• alpha, Renaissance Medallion Fund (RMF) and, 175
• alternative hypothesis, 18, 19
• American worker case study. See also employees
  • about, 45
  • causes of increasing U.S. income equality, 48–50
  • creating your ranking of well-being, 50–51
  • Excel calculations, 52
  • global median income, 52
  • Human Development Index (HDI), 50
  • median income, 46–47
  • politics, 46–47
  • U.S. family income, 45
• Amper Music, 433
• amplitude, 429
• Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey
  • “All Sizzle and No Steak: Value-Added Model Doesn't Add Value in Houston,” 93
• analysis
  • for 1969 Draft Lottery, 18–20
  • back-of-the-envelope, 245
  • NFL/NBA regression ...