Thursday, October 02, 2025
Analytics Education STEM

Why Pareto? Using 80/20 rule in the real-world.

The Pareto principle states that about 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes in many real-world events. You can use this to, say, identify 80% of your best-selling categories, or conversely the worst performing categories/items. The uses are limitless, really. And they don’t have to be only about $$$. Graphically, it’s a […]

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Analytics Education Health STEM

Virus Wiping Away Toilet Papers in 2020!

Amazed (at the stupidity) and fascinated (by idiocy) by binge and panic shopper, I was compelled to ponder specifically about the toilet paper shortage in light of the recent pandemic (“corona virus”). This blog is will reflect on the reasoning provided by shoppers, and psychologists, a look at the economic statistics and realities of the […]

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Coding Education STEM

How many cats and dogs are there in your city? (method and cool charts)

In this seemingly simple couple of charts, I demonstrate a few nifty tricks that are fun and effective. First, we want to find out how many cats and dogs in a few selected cities (around me) and come with an educated estimate based on data. Then, we will use some cool, free add-in to create […]

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Analytics Coding Education STEM

Simulating coin-toss in Excel

Most of us know that theoretically, there’s a 50-50 chance of getting a “head” from an unbiased coin-toss. There are numerous implementations and simulations done in virtually all programming languages around this age-old ‘riddle’. In this blog, I share a simple but very effective simulation in Excel. Here’s the simulation: As you can see, I’m […]

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Education STEM

NFL 2019 regular season is done. What have we learned?

Now that the 2019 NFL regular season is in the books, we have complete data available about the teams’ performances. What can we glean from them? In this blog, I share some findings, answers, and the process of analytics behind discovery of the answers. I will focus on overall team performance data, not individual positions, […]

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