Understanding the regression line with standard units

1 · Lindsey Kuper · Aug. 31, 2018, 7:58 p.m.
This post has an accompanying Jupyter Notebook! How do you do, fellow kids? Over the last few months, I’ve been working my way through Data 8X, the online version of Berkeley’s Data 8 course, after seeing Joe Hellerstein tweet about it a while back. At first, I was interested mostly for pedagogical reasons, but I can now admit to actually having learned something about data science, too. The course is organized in three parts, and I’ve finished the first two parts (check out my cheevos!) and ...