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How to Write Data Analysis Reports. Lesson 2—Know Your Audience.

Posted on September 20, 2013 by statswithcats

Every self-help article about technical writing starts by telling readers to consider their audience. Even so, probably few report writers do. In a statistical analysis, you usually start by considering the characteristics of the population about which you want to … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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Five Things You Should Know Before Taking Statistics 101

Posted on May 15, 2011 by statswithcats

Of the over two million college degrees that are granted in the U.S. every year, including those earned at accredited online colleges nationwide, probably two-thirds require completion of a statistics class. That’s over a million and a half students taking … Continue reading →

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Polls Apart

Posted on May 8, 2011 by statswithcats

Election season is fast approaching so you can be sure a plethora of polls will soon be adding to the mayhem. Polls educate us in two ways. They tell us what we, or at least the population being polled, think. … Continue reading →

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Regression Fantasies: Part III

Posted on May 2, 2011 by statswithcats

Is Your Regression Model Telling the Truth? There are many technologies we use in our lives without really understanding how they work. Television. Computers. Cell phones. Microwave ovens. Cars. Even many things about the human body are not well understood. … Continue reading →

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Regression Fantasies: Part I

Posted on April 18, 2011 by statswithcats

Five Common Reasons for Doubting a Regression Model Finding a model that fits a set of data is one of the most common goals in data analysis. Least squares regression is the most commonly used tool for achieving this goal. … Continue reading →

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