Fun with Python

Draw your own conclusions:

Grammar vs. politics. Or, education vs. ideology.

Grammar vs. politics. Or, education vs. ideology. (click to embiggen)

The red points are data fromĀ a grammar.com analysis of nonnegative Facebook comments on the pages of theseĀ presidential candidates. The black curve is the most-optimal least-squares fit of a polynomial (fourth-order, in this case) that, among the polynomials tested (orders zero through eight), minimizes the information loss of that model representation of the data. This information loss minimization is called the Akaike Information Criterion.

 


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