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About statswithcats

Charlie Kufs has been crunching numbers for over forty years. He retired in 2019 and is currently working on Stats with Kittens, for people interested in statistics who have not yet taken Stats 101, and the second edition of Stats with Cats, for people who have taken Stats 101 and want to use statistics at work or in their life.

How to Write Data Analysis Reports. Lesson 1—Know Your Content.

Posted on September 19, 2013 by statswithcats

In every data analysis, putting the analysis and the results into a comprehensible report is the final, and for some, the biggest hurdle. The goal of a technical report is to communicate information. However, the technical information is difficult to … Continue reading →

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What Type of Data Scientist are You?

Posted on May 6, 2013 by statswithcats

Read any popular business magazine and you’re sure to find an article about how data science is the wave of the future. Since 2011, after fifty years of wandering through the halls of academia, real world employment of data scientists … Continue reading →

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All Information is Actionable

Posted on April 13, 2013 by statswithcats

Business managers occasionally complain that information they are presented with isn’t actionable. This usually pisses off the data analysts who spent a great deal of effort acquiring data and turning them into information. Data analysts will tell you that actionable … Continue reading →

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I Can Haz Collaboration

Posted on February 3, 2013 by statswithcats

Collaboration means different things to different people. Many experts describe collaboration as people working together to solve a problem or achieve a common goal. In contrast, many people in business use collaboration to refer to any meeting of minds between individuals, whether … Continue reading →

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The Foundation of Professional Graphs

Posted on August 18, 2012 by statswithcats

Some people are content with visualizing their data sets using pie charts and bar charts. If you really want to analyze data, though, you need to know how to pick the best graph for the job. Here’s the first step … Continue reading →

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Reports vs. Analyses

Posted on July 19, 2012 by statswithcats

Data reports are not the same as data analyses. It’s like with your checking account. Sometimes you just want a quick report of your balance. That information from the bank’s database has to be up-to-date and readily available when you … Continue reading →

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Survey Avoidance Disorder

Posted on July 18, 2012 by statswithcats
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The Best Super Power of All

Posted on July 14, 2012 by statswithcats

If you’re not a mutant, an extraterrestrial, an adventure seeker prone to outlandously fortuitous accidents, or a wealthy scientific genius who can engineer all sorts of wondrous gadgets, don’t despair. You can still have your own super power. In fact, … Continue reading →

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Infauxmocracy

Posted on June 27, 2012 by statswithcats
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Confidence Interval

Posted on February 22, 2012 by statswithcats
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