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Data storytelling

January 31, 2023 By editor

If you pay too much attention to social media these days, it appears that we're failing our clients if we don't present data as a narrative. Data storytelling is where it's at. Dataviz (data visualization) is so last year. This view does a disservice to both dataviz and data storytelling. It fails to appreciate the range of dataviz applications and, by watering down the definition of data … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Data science, General Tagged With: storytelling, visualization

Digital transformation

April 4, 2022 By editor

Digital transformation. Yet another pretentious term that obscures more than it reveals. Every time it's uttered it's immediately followed by an attempt at a definition. My favourite by far is Unfucking your terrible use of computers. Unfortunately, I can’t remember the source. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: digital transformation

Sharks are definitely scarier than mosquitos

March 24, 2021 By editor

Bill Gates retweeted a World Health Organization infographic showing that mosquitos kill vastly more people than sharks every year---on the order of 100,000 times more. In his tweet Bill captioned the infographic with, "Why I would rather encounter a shark in the wild rather than a mosquito." Presumably he's referring to man-eating sharks. This was an informal comment designed to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Data science, General Tagged With: conditional probability], statistics

When Spreadsheets Attack!

May 7, 2020 By editor

Stand-up comedian Matt Parker talks about when "spreadsheets hit the fan". … [Read more...]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: spreadsheets

Decision Machines

April 11, 2020 By editor

A recent article on the Harvard Business School's Digital Initiative blog argues that we need to move beyond prediction to create "decision machines". It is decisions, not predictions, that have consequences. I couldn't agree more. However, I'm not sure that the current focus on statistical machine learning is going to lead us there. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: AI, decision-making, decisions, machine learning

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