ÁLVARO MANERA 'Statistical tools to solve common development problems'

Most common tasks can be solved with the usual combination of for / while / if / list / map, and if we don't know better it ends up being the golden solution to every problem, because we don't know the alternative.

Some of these problems can also be solved using a set of statistical algorithms. These tools are not widely known, but will open your mind to non-procedural problem solving techniques, like:

Calculate unique values for big data sets and streams with HyperLogLog.
Borrow concepts from probability to replace and simplify if/else conditions. Use those to build an adaptive algorithm
Some of these algorithms have been battle-tested by well-known databases. We will include a small demo and an analysis of accuracy with sample datasets.

Don't worry! No previous math knowledge needed!