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Hi! My name is Garrett DuCharme. I’m currently a student studying data science at the Flatiron school in Chicago. In another life I was a physics graduate student at Penn State University, where I earned my master’s degree. Outside of school I enjoy playing the tuba, powerlifting, and hanging out with my cat, Asher. This… Read more

For a recent project as part of my bootcamp at The Flatiron School, I wanted to explore the power of SARIMA forecasting for predicting important climate metrics provided by the NOAA, such as average temperature and precipitation. Given the limited time that I had for this project, I was only able to really focus on… Read more

Anyone who has ever done work in the biological sciences, demography, sociology, psychology, and now, data science, knows what a p-value is. It’s the first thing people usually reference when showing that an observed result is “statistically significant” when performing Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (NHST). The problem, though, is that p-values are widely misunderstood are… Read more