Random Thoughts For the Day

Random Thoughts For the Day

“The plural of anecdote is not data.”


 Data Science and the Art of Persuasion
Article from Scott Berinato, author of Good Charts,  From the January – February 2019 issue
Did you know Florence Nightingale created Coxcomb Charts? 
A story you probably heard in your stats 101 class, Student's t test and Guinness

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