Cultures with Gab Astorga
Where microbes meet meaning. A celebration of the weird connections my brain makes across biology, identity, culture, and all things wonderfully human.
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An introduction to Biostatistics: Why is biological data MESSY? (opens the original)
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Just like me and my ex, real-life biological data is MESSY, but unlike me and my ex, though, we can still use biological data to make useful inferences.For interpolating (estimating an unknown value from the data we already have), extrapolating (using known data to make a prediction), and summarising data to infer things we already see.I learned a lot of this from one of my favourite data scientists and lecturers at University (Shoutout Dr Phil Leftwich). He has a really in-depth tutorial here:
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