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Tag Archives: data
Stats with Kittens
My new book, Stats with Kittens, Growing up with data, charts, surveys, correlations, and other floofy playthings, is now available on Amazon. Everybody needs to understand statistics. It’s an essential part of everyday life in America, more so than any … Continue reading
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Tagged cats, data, education, introductory statistics, jargon, statistical analysis, statistics, stats with cats, Stats with Kittens
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Anecdotes and Big Data
An anecdote is a kitten gently licking your face with a warm, wet,
raspy tongue. Big data is a three-inch, high-pressure, firehose held an arm’s length away. They have to be treated quite differently.
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WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN DATA – PART 1
Some activities are instinctive. A baby doesn’t need to be taught how to suckle. Most people can use an escalator, operate an elevator, and open a door instinctively. The same isn’t true of playing a guitar, driving a car, or … Continue reading
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Tagged cats, censored data, data, data analysis, data scrubbing, descriptive statistics, graphs, measurement scales, missing data, replicates
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It’s Hard to be a Data-Driven Organization
Why is it so Hard? Do you work for a data-driven organization, or one that claims to be a data-driven organization, or one that wants to be a data-driven organization? You probably do, whether you work for a big retailer … Continue reading
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