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Old 12-05-2013, 05:25 PM
 
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1.35pm, just back from a meeting across campus. Still beautifully blue and bright out there. Students wandering around in shorts. Sure glad I brouight my sunnies today. Pretty darn fine December weather.

Hope you're enjoying the sunshine, pghdude28.
Do you know what statistical outlier means?
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Old 12-05-2013, 06:21 PM
 
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Do you know what statistical outlier means?
Yep - I do. And given that each winter month is likely to have 3 or 4 sunny days, approx 10% doesn't qualify as a statistical outlier.

So, given that I wonder if you know what one is, I thought I'd do a simple illustration. I ran a sentiment analysis on this year's posts in city data and clustered the results. Sentiment analysis aims to determine the attitude of a writer with respect to some topic or the overall contextual polarity of a document(s). The results are illustrated below. A perfect illustration of an outlier, methinks

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Old 12-06-2013, 03:57 AM
 
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I don't care for cloudy and sad. all I care is: rain or not? umbrella or not? coat or sweater? man some yinz are just anal about here.
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Old 12-06-2013, 06:35 AM
 
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Pittsburgh has one more heavily clouded ONE more day a year than the sunny wonderful Cleveland Ohio. If someone tells you that that yearly .2% is a perceivable difference, they're just looking for something to ***** about.

That said, I'll take really cold and dry over wet and still kinda cold.
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Old 12-06-2013, 06:46 AM
 
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A perfect illustration of an outlier, methinks
That's beyond an outlier and more of an influential point. You need a Cook's d.
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Old 12-07-2013, 03:37 PM
 
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Looks like we had pretty much another statistical outlier today. That makes 2 in 7 this month by pghdude28-style stats anyway.

Bootiful, cold but bright winter day - with the proof in the pudding, er, pics ....



View from our garden around 10am as the clouds start to break up


Pittsburgh blind school - seems appropriate for one of our trolls - about 3pm - good place to buy Xmas trees BTW

View over East Liberty as sun starts to set
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Old 12-07-2013, 04:28 PM
 
Location: somewhere near Pittsburgh, PA
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Today was gorgeous. I love winter days like this. Cold, sunny, light wind. Perfect. I went for a run on the Montour Trail and had to wear sunglasses due to that mysterious ball of fire in the sky reflecting off the white snowpack. Crazy.
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Old 12-07-2013, 08:07 PM
 
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Today was gorgeous. I love winter days like this. Cold, sunny, light wind. Perfect. I went for a run on the Montour Trail and had to wear sunglasses due to that mysterious ball of fire in the sky reflecting off the white snowpack. Crazy.
yup, it was a gorgeous winter day - i biked to gym in morning, and it was cool and a little and icy. But sun came out around 10am, and and ran around Schenley Park in the afternoon.

Wearing sunnies ... in December ... where were you, pghdude28?
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Old 12-07-2013, 08:16 PM
 
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I had the chance to finally test my car in snow last night. Mad a bit since I washed it the day before lol. If anything I learned is my parking lot will never be plowed or salt dropped.
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Old 12-07-2013, 08:19 PM
 
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I had the chance to finally test my car in snow last night. Mad a bit since I washed it the day before lol. If anything I learned is my parking lot will never be plowed or salt dropped.
Were you sober?

Sorry .... couldn't resist
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