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Author, Junk Charts and Numbers Rule Your World
Interests: practical statistics, web analytics, data visualization, right-brain marketing
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Berry: I deliberately made this post "negative" because I don't believe the teaching profession has taken up this challenge. What are the most common comments we hear from students who have taken Stats 101? "Boring", "hard", "didn't understand it", "didn't like it", "hated it", "glad it's over", etc. If we document every instance of poor statistical thinking-not to pick on newspapers but also on blogs, on talk shows, in business meetings- the list will be long.
Commented yesterday on General statistical education is an utter failure at Big Data, Plainly Spoken (aka Numbers Rule Your World)
General statistical education is an utter failure
As if we need more evidence. The statistics community loves to think of our subject as highly practical and relevant to the general population. And this is true. The average person has a poor grasp of basic statistical thinking, even if he or she has taken one or more statistics courses. This is...
Thanks for several readers for their feedback. I just posted a new version of the taxonomy diagram.
Commented Jun 26, 2014 on Reference page for Trifecta Checkup at Junk Charts
Reference page for Trifecta Checkup
It's here! Many readers have requested a reference to the Junk Charts Trifecta Checkup. I finally found time to write this up. Here is the introduction: The Junk Charts Trifecta Checkup is a general framework for data visualization criticism. It captures how I like to organize the thinking behin...
jonathan: if you click to one of my two earlier posts on this topic, I have a link to the published paper. One of Gelman's readers found the paper while Andrew found the poster presentation. I'm glad we have both because the published paper only contains relative numbers-you can't find any absolute counts and so you can't judge what's in there.
Commented Jun 26, 2014 on How to read Big Data studies at Big Data, Plainly Spoken (aka Numbers Rule Your World)
How to read Big Data studies
This is part 3 of my response to Gelman's post about the DST/heart attacks study. The previous parts are here and here. One of the keys of vetting any Big Data/OCCAM study is taking note of the decisions made by the researchers in conducting the analysis. Most of these decisions involve subjecti...
Mike: You'd be right (see my critique of my own chart below the chart!)
Commented Jun 24, 2014 on Getting the basics right is half the battle at Junk Charts
Getting the basics right is half the battle
I was traveling quite a lot recently, and last week, read the Wall Street Journal cover to cover for the first time in a while. I am happy to report that there are many more data graphics than I remember of past editions. The following chart illustrating findings of an FCC report on broadband sp...
Thanks David. That would be their logic. If I were doing separate charts, I'd have selected different color schemes.
Commented Jun 23, 2014 on Getting the basics right is half the battle at Junk Charts
Getting the basics right is half the battle
I was traveling quite a lot recently, and last week, read the Wall Street Journal cover to cover for the first time in a while. I am happy to report that there are many more data graphics than I remember of past editions. The following chart illustrating findings of an FCC report on broadband sp...
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