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Survey and Sampling

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Why a Data Scientist has to know about survey methodology?

Surveys

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Surveys or questionnaires are a user research method in which a broad range of users are sent the same set of questions to collect broad insights and trends about a given topic or market. Characterist...

Sampling

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In Machine Learning we often need to work with very large datasets, which sometimes may be computationally expensive. During these times, it makes more sense to create a smaller sample of this large…

Sampling- Statistics 101 for Data Science (Part 3/20)

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Sampling is a technique of selecting individual members or a subset of the population to make statistical inferences from them and estimate the characteristics of the whole population. We take a…

An Overview of Sampling Techniques

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Most of the time when we want to conduct research about a group of people (or in general, a population), it might result ineffective — or even impossible- to collect data from every person in the…

Sampling Techniques

Towards Data Science

Sampling helps a lot in research. It is one of the most important factors which determines the accuracy of your research/survey result. If anything goes wrong with your sample then it will be…

The Perils of Survey Data

Towards Data Science

Although they are rarely ideal, surveys are, in certain situations, the only way to get data. Directly asking a person questions means that the data is subject to bias and may not reflect the truth…

Sampling Techniques in Data Analysis

Towards Data Science

In this post I intend to provide an overview of some sampling techniques for data collection, and give suggestions on how to pick the most optimal methods for your data. The sampling methods I will de...

Sampling Methods in R

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Let’s say that we have a population of size N, a sample is nothing but a subset of data taken from that population. The process of selecting a sample is known as sampling. In this case, we might have…...

A Data Scientist’s Guide to 8 Types of Sampling Techniques

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What is sampling? What are the different types of sampling? This article looks at broadly 2 types of sampling — probability and non-probability. Here’s a scenario I’m sure you are familiar with. You…

Possible Biases in Surveys

Towards Data Science

In the field of data science, the data that we work with has a significant effect on the predictions that we get. The prediction models are created based on the data. Data scientists are also…

How to Get a Taste of Everything: Sampling Techniques

Towards AI

Mastering the art: Tips and tricks for successful sampling Photo by Natalia Gusakova on Unsplash Sampling is the process of selecting a subset(sample) from the population. It is done to get informati...