Here's the (pretty abhorrent) front cover of yesterday's Sun newspaper. Bearing in mind that several recent terrorist atrocities are top of everyone's mind at the moment, it's clear what the Sun is implying here. The text on the front page is even more overt: Nearly one in five British Muslims have some sympathy with those who have fled … Continue reading The Sun and its dangerous misuse of statistics
Month: November 2015
The persuasiveness of dataviz
The intrinsic power of the the chart is highlighted nicely in a recent Harvard Business Review post. In an experiment (*), Aner Tal et al. had a couple of groups read about a new medication that supposedly reduced the incidence of illness by 40%. This was clearly stated in the text the readers were given. … Continue reading The persuasiveness of dataviz
More data is not always better data
Like a lot of data-fans, I have something of a tendency to "collect" data just in case it will become useful one day. Vendors are feeding that addiction with constant talk of swimming through blissful "data lakes" and related tools, notably Hadoop and its brethren. Furthermore, as the production of data grows exponentially, the cost … Continue reading More data is not always better data
Future features coming to Tableau 9.2 and beyond
Having been lucky enough to attend the huge (*) Tableau #data15 conference a couple of weeks ago - and by now managed to recover mostly - I have noted down some information from the keynote presentation and beyond of what features are likely to appear in nearby versions of Tableau. Any errors are of course of my own doing...it … Continue reading Future features coming to Tableau 9.2 and beyond
Dabbling with Data 