Common Probability Distributions: The Data Scientist's Crib Sheet - Cloudera Engineering Blog

Data scientists have hundreds of probability distributions from which to choose. Data science, whatever it may be, remains a big deal. "A data scientist is better at statistics than any software engineer," you may overhear a pundit say, at your local tech get-togethers and hackathons. The applied mathematicians have their revenge, because statistics hasn't been this talked-about since the roaring 20s. They have their own legitimizing Venn diagram of which people don't make fun. Suddenly it's you, the engineer, left out of the chat about confidence intervals instead of tutting at the analysts who have never heard of the Apache Bikeshed project for distributed comment formatting. To fit in, to be the life and soul of that party again, you need a crash course in stats.