Probably Overthinking It: Companion Notebooks

Probably Overthinking It: Companion Notebooks#

This site contains the Jupyter notebooks I used in my preparation of Probably Overthinking It: How to Use Data to Answer Questions, Avoid Statistical Traps, and Make Better Decisions.

If you’ve read the book and you want to know how the analysis works, this is the place. And if you read these notebooks, and you want to get the book, you can order from Bookshop.org and Amazon (affiliate links).

If you like Probably Overthinking It, you’ll like my book in progress, You Would Choose Now, which uses decades of survey data to track changing attitudes in the United States. The early access edition is available now.

Chapters#

While preparing these notebooks, I made some changes to improve the readability of the code. There might be small differences between what appears in the book and what you get when you run the code.

Chapter 1: Are You Normal? Hint: No.

Run the code on Colab

Run the code that prepares the BRFSS data

Run the code that prepares the Big Five data

Chapter 2: Relay Races and Revolving Doors

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Chapter 3: Defy Tradition, Save the World

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Chapter 4: Extremes, Outliers, and GOATs

Run the code on Colab

Run the code that prepares the BRFSS data

Run the code that prepares the NSFG data