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Data Points: January 2019

Posted on January 6, 2019

A roundup of random thoughts on data, information and design for the New Year. Diversity in the 116th U.S. Congress There has been a lot of discussion this week about the racial,…

Anatomy of an Analysis (Part 2) – The Enrichening

Posted on August 30, 2015

In the first part of this analysis, I turned a short list of movies into a database that could be used to answer basic questions about the list’s contents. Now I’d like…

Anatomy of an Analysis (Part 1)

Posted on August 29, 2015

A few weeks ago, the BBC News produced a list of the top 100 greatest American films based on input from critics from around the world. Here are the top ten films…

Data Literacy 101: What is Data?

Posted on December 29, 2014

Whenever the topic of data comes up at meetings or informal conversations it doesn’t take long for people’s eyes to glaze over. The subject is usually considered so complex and esoteric that…

A 12-Year-Old’s Take on Data and Analysis

Posted on June 27, 2014

I asked my daughter what she thought data was last night. Her text to me at 11:45 pm: Okay, so you asked me what data was at the motorcycle thing today and…

How to Build the Perfect Data Science Team

Posted on March 9, 2014

Although the fields of statistics, data analysis, and computer programming have been around for decades, the use of the term “data science” to describe the intersection of these disciplines has only become…

Spelling and National Security

Posted on May 18, 2013

A former co-worker of mine always used to joke about our company’s customer database by posing the deceptively simple question: “How many ways can you spell ‘IBM’?” In fact, the number of…

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