Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all
– Charles Babbage
Monthly Archives: June 2015
Asking The Right Questions
Recently, an executive at an online media firm had asked me to take a look at some data. His team had found some interesting results using some correlations of data points for his web activity. Unfortunately, he wasn’t convinced of what they were saying because his intuition was telling him. However, he couldn’t refute the analysis, it was fairly sound. He decided to get another opinion. Continue reading Asking The Right Questions
Bryant H. McGill
An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
– Bryant H. McGill
John Tukey
An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.
– John Tukey
Mark Twain
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
– Mark Twain