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"This Book Could Have Been a Tweet"
I like to recommend books to people but I’m noticing a weird trend.
Oct 27
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Kareem Carr, PhD
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A Simple Explanation for a Ferocious Debate at the Heart of Statistics
In the beginning, before I knew anything about statistics, I knew it was bitterly divided into two rival camps, two schools of thought that opposed each…
Oct 15
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Kareem Carr, PhD
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September 2025
How Do You Learn Math Fast?
Join me as I try to find out.
Sep 29
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Kareem Carr, PhD
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August 2025
Coming Soon
It's been one week and I'm slowly settling into the Substack format.
Aug 21
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Kareem Carr, PhD
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How I Learned to Think Like a Statistician
The three lessons life taught me about statistics that classes never did
Aug 19
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Kareem Carr, PhD
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The Language of Scientific Elitism
Why Scientific Journals Exclude You (and This Newsletter Doesn’t)
Aug 18
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Kareem Carr, PhD
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The Hardest Part of Learning Statistics
Spoiler: It isn't the math
Aug 15
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Kareem Carr, PhD
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Did ChatGPT Kill Data Science?
Before large language models like ChatGPT, we had traditional machine learning.
Aug 14
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Kareem Carr, PhD
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Everything is Statistics
Statistics is a much bigger idea than most people realize
Aug 13
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Kareem Carr, PhD
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Science is dead. Long live science.
A short explanation of what I'm doing with this newsletter.
Aug 12
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Kareem Carr, PhD
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November 2022
Welcome
This newsletter is for regular folks who want to level-up their knowledge of data science and statistics.
Nov 18, 2022
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Kareem Carr, PhD
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