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Dutch giants

February 6, 2023 By editor

This chart crime made me afraid to visit Amsterdam. https://twitter.com/AdamSinger/status/1612124828114321410 I had to rework it to stop the nightmares. Phew. Everyone looks normal now. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Data analysis, Data science Tagged With: visualization

Percentages or proportions?

February 2, 2023 By editor

Don't store percentages. Normalize them as proportions and format them as percentages for display. If you are representing 20%, record it as 0.2, regardless of how you present this to the user (for input or output). Having one approach keeps it simple. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Data science Tagged With: percentages, proportions

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

Self-driving car from 1958

June 27, 2022 By editor

GM produced a self-driving car prototype...in 1958. There's a short documentary about it. Required wires in the road rather than machine learning. Presumably their PR machine said, "They'll be commercially viable by 1959." … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Artificial intelligence Tagged With: GM, machine learning, self-driving car

Sentient AI

June 14, 2022 By editor

Gary Marcus addresses the nonsense in the popular press about Google's LaMDA AI system being sentient. He leads with a great quote, from Abeba Birhane, that sums up the whole thing. we have arrived at peak AI hype accompanied by minimal critical thinking … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Artificial intelligence

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