Predicting the Weather with Pietro the Weather Tortoise | Stats + Stories Episode 225

Meteorologists go to school to be able to predict the weather accurately, but for some people, weather prediction is a hobby. Maybe they have a trick knee that hurts when it rains or perhaps they know when a storm is coming by how the birds at their feeders are behaving. Some lucky folks have pets that can help them figure out what the weather is going to do and that’s the focus of this episode of Stats and Stories with guest Conner Jackson. Conner Jackson is a Research Instructor in the Department of Biostatistics and Informatics at the Colorado School of Public Health. He serves as the chair of the Education Committee for the Center for Innovative Design and Analysis and teaches a 6-week short course about statistics and data science to bench scientists. His research focuses on the analysis of correlated data, largely in the context of infectious diseases. Timestamps: How did this come about? (1:40) How did you frame this project? (4:40) How do you know, he's predicting rain?(8:29) So how did it work out? (11:40) Conner’s writing style (15:24) Has this influenced your other work? (20:42)