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The Myth of the Hot Hand, New Research by faculty member Lisa Goldberg

Strength in Numbers In Search of the Warriors’ Hot Hand

Alon Daks, Nishant Desai, Lisa Goldberg*

May 30, 2017

The true believer in the law of small numbers commits his multitude of sins against the logic of statistical inference in good faith.

Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, “Belief in the Law of Small Numbers”

Data science program reaches new milestones

From the article:

As Fall 2016 winds to a close, UC Berkeley’s Data Science education program reached new heights and is poised for further growth in 2017. Approximately 500 students enrolled this semester in the entry-level course, Foundations of Data Science, and hundreds more in connector courses spanning topics ranging from neuroscience to media studies.

PhD students Stephanie DeGraaf, Billy Fang and Chelsea Zhang awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Congratulations to our PhD students Stephanie DeGraaf, Billy Fang and Chelsea Zhang who have all been awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships! The NSF GRFP program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited US institutions.