What is Stat Significant?
Stat Significant is a free weekly newsletter featuring data-centric essays about culture, economics, sports, statistics, and more. Each week I attempt to answer big thorny questions using data analytics.
Recent essays include:
How has music changed since the 1950s?: A survey of popular music history and changes in song composition over time.
How do the holidays impact engineering productivity?: An analysis of software engineering output in a given calendar year, highlighting ebbs and flows in productivity based on time of year.
Are Best Picture winners getting worse?: A historical overview of commercial and critical success for Best Picture winners.
Who Writes Stat Significant?
Great question! My name is Daniel Parris, and I'm a California-based data scientist and journalist who writes about the intersection of statistics and pop culture. I initially majored in film, working briefly in the entertainment industry, before a 6+ year stint at DoorDash, joining the company when it was ~150 employees.
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