Schooling Online
English Essentials - Powering through Prose - 'Big Picture' Questions in Prose (Stage 6, Years/Grades 11-12)
Welcome back to Powering Through Prose! In this lesson, we’ll unpack key elements of more advanced prose fiction, including narrative purpose, context, genre, structure, setting, narrative perspective and characterisation. Never fear -...
Mister Simplify
CATWOE Analysis - Simplified with an Example
CATWOE analysis is a tool to aid business change. It can however also be used during business as usual to analyse the health of a business by understanding stakeholder perspective. We understand the components of CATWOE in this simple...
Professor Dave Explains
Core Principles and Concepts of Dendrochronology
Now that we know what dendrochronology is, it's time to dig into the core principles and concepts of this discipline, so that we can better understand how dendrochronologists think and what they do. Data acquisition and tree ring...
The Business Professor
Marketing - Using Data for Market Segmentation
This Video Explains Marketing - Using Data for Market Segmentation
Healthcare Triage
Most People Don't Need Vitamin D Supplements
There's a big study out from The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. Systematic Review. Meta Analysis. Trial sequential analysis. This one’s got it all!
R Programming 101
T-test and interpreting P values using R Programming
This video explains how to use a t-test and interpret the p value using R programming. If you are doing data analysis or interested in data science, then you'll need to learn how to do statistical analysis. Statistics and statistical...
Soliloquy
Could Trump win under a Proportional System?
Could Trump or Sanders win if the US used a proportional system? The United States uses first passed the post for its electoral system, but many have argued that a proportional system would better represent the nation in the house of...
Oxford Comma
Can Art Save Nature: Future of Forestry
C.S. Lewis, widely known for his children's series The Chronicles of Narnia, composed a number of fantastic poems - "The Future of Forestry" being my personal favorite. In it, Lewis imagines an England devoid of trees. This desolation is...
APMonitor
Data Science 🐍 Statistical Analysis
Once data is read into Python, a first step is to analyze the data with summary statistics. This is especially true if the data set is large. Summary statistics include the count, mean, standard deviation, maximum, minimum, and quartile...
Healthcare Triage
Medicaid for Children Leads to Better Outcomes Later in Life
The recent election has caused many to question whether significant changes are about to happen to Medicaid. Repeal of the Affordable Care Act would, of course, lead to the elimination of the Medicaid expansion, which could result in...
Curated Video
Diagrammatic Analysis of Monopoly Market Structure
This video explains the concept of monopoly market structure, its diagrammatic analysis, and the behavior of monopolists. The video covers topics such as the downward-sloping demand curve, the profit-maximizing output, the price, and the...
Virtually Passed
cuvilinear n t coordinate systems example
If you're given the parametric equations describing the path of a particle. How do you find out the accelerations in the normal and tangential direction? Find the velocity and you know the tangential direction. Find the acceleration and...
Healthcare Triage
Infant Mortality in the United States is Surprisingly High
Many more babies die in the United States than you might think. In 2014, more than 23,000 infants died in their first year of life, or about six for every 1,000 born. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 25 other...
Two Minute Music Theory
Is Older Music Better? - Music Theory Vlog #1
Is older music better? Is current music worse? Are we as composers and songwriters devolving? I discuss these topics on my first ever music theory vlog.
Curated Video
Create a machine learning model of a real-life process or object : Putting It All Together in a Professional Way
From the section: Regression Task Airbnb Prices in New York. We will use a real-world Airbnb dataset that contains data about New York properties for rent in 2019 on Airbnb, including their price. It is a simple dataset and makes a good...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Sheila Dow - Why Economists Think How They Think
Economists argue over how the economy works or what is the best fiscal policy to recover from the current crisis. Sheila Dow looks behind the curtain of these debates; she seeks to find out why particular theories are being advanced, and...
Professor Dave Explains
Techniques for Sampling and Analysis in Dendrochronology
We now know what dendrochronologists do. They examine tree rings. But precisely how do they do this? How do they collect the data? How do they analyze it? This is a very involved question, but let's try to answer it by investigating the...
Weird History
Step-by-Step Timeline of the Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs
Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the Earth's atmosphere, traveling 45,000 miles per hour. The asteroid ripped a hole 18 miles deep in the Earth's crust, triggering devastating winds, seismic waves, and tsunamis. For...
Science360
Computational biology of cancer
Endometrial cancer affects 48,000 women per year in the United States. For patients with tumors greater than two centimeters in diameter, the effected organ(s) and lymph nodes may be surgically removed. Yet post-surgery analysis shows...
Curated Video
Introduction to PESTLE Analysis for Business Threats and Opportunities
This video introduces the concept of PESTLE analysis and how it can be used by businesses to identify future threats and opportunities in the external environment. The video explains how businesses can use the PESTLE framework to manage...
Healthcare Triage
Homicide and Firearms: Guns and Public Health Part 2
Let's be clear. The biggest thing people worry about with guns in the US is homicide. There are lots of ways to look at the data, and most don't make the US look very good. Prepare for a deep dive.
Healthcare Triage
Sorority Membership Doesn't Necessarily Lead to Eating Disorders
When I was a medical student, I remember doing a psych rotation on a pediatric ward. I was struck by how many of the admissions were for eating disorders. Even before then, I was aware that more than a small number of my female friends...
Oxford Comma
Love and Memory: What Lips My Lips Have Kissed
A summary, reading, and analysis of Edna St. Vincent Millay's "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why." The title alone could have its own video, so please don't take this as an exhaustive study. But, if you're confused by the...