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Data002: “Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.”
That’s a quote from statistician George Box. (Any, by the way, by “model” he means a mathematical or statistical formula.) The lesson to carry away from this is that analysis is an exercise in...
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Data010: Put numbers in context, or, I never felt so poor
Numbers are abstract and often hard to grasp until they’re put into a context. A vivid example of this comes up with a nifty trick put together by Slate.com called “Mitt’s Income vs. Your Income: How...
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Data014: Analysis as Translation, or, Horace hates Pyrrha
["Pyrrha and Deucalion" by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione] This will make for poetry two days in a row, but it’s all for a good purpose, so just roll with me on this. There is a nearly universal...
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