Data Science – Quant Knot

Mining for YouTube Sailing Channels

Recently my Dad came to me with a question about getting data on the Sailing Channels on YouTube. The number of sailing focused YouTube channels is estimated to be anywhere from 500 to about 1000 active channels. The data mining that I will perform in the following sections will only…

By Simon Liles May 22, 2022Data Science, Sailing

Data Science Education

Advice for my Brother: How to think about Statistics

In the fall semester of 2020 I was well on my way through the Information Science and Data Science Program at the University of South Florida. At the same time my twin brother, Stuart, was also getting into some of the advanced classes of Mechanical Engineering, and had to take…

By Simon Liles February 9, 2021Data Science, Education

Data Science Education Statistics

Making sense of Bayes’ Theorem

So today I was trying to help out my twin brother with understanding a statistics problem involving Bayes' Theorem. Besides the fact that they always ask probability problems in the most confusing way possible, very few actually explain Bayes' Theorem very well. So here I attempt to provide some additional…

By Simon Liles September 24, 2020Data Science, Education, Statistics