Statistics is used in every day life in a number of situations and we don't even realize it
When you wake up in the morning and you check out your cell phone
to look at the weather, those predictions are based on statistics.
When you go to the supermarket and you use a credit card to make a transaction
whether the transaction is approved or denied is based on statistics.
So one of the really cool ways that we use statistics at LinkedIn
is to identify which members in the site are looking for a job.
Once we are able to determine the member is looking for a job
we are able to cater the content of the site to that need.
We are also able to use this information when hiring managers and recruiters are looking for candidates
and that's just one of the many applications of statistics.
When I first started learning statistics
I wish somebody had told me that it was such a team sport
that it was very important to work with other folks on the team
to make sure that your data was correct,
to learn how to train models the right way
to understand that it was very unlikely that I was going to get it right the first time
and I had to work with other people to high train on these models and eventually get it right.
Statistics is amazing because it has many diversification's
from search results on Google or Bing
to movie recommendations on Netflix
to recommendations for what you should be shopping for on Amazon
to social media recommendations for Linkedin and Facebook on who you should be connecting with.
We are producing so much data these days
regardless of the field that you pursue
whether it be astronomy, criminal justice, or medicine
going forward you've got to know statistics.
