This year I’m going to recommend two books every month which have help shape my adventures in data – we’re visiting probability and feedback in January.
Author: fragiledata
Stream Graphs: The Good, the Bad and the Hard
From just getting it out the door to ensuring the doors are all custom, let’s take a look at the different ways to generate them.
My First Week using Alteryx
You’re not really meant to say this when you are (or have been) a data analyst/scientist/whatever, but I have a limited patience/tolerance for the reformatting and cleaning of data.
Communicating Data: The Warming Stripes (Tie)
The story of The Warming Stripes needs little in the way of explicit direction, which is also why it is so adaptable to odd media (like ties and earrings).
#BeAWomanInDataViz Tableau Workshop
I haven’t felt compelled to write on this blog in some time, partly out of time and partly out having … More
#Nudgestock 2016: Part II, Creativity
This is my second post on the Nudgestock festival of behavioural economics which I attended last week. This post will focus on the two speakers who addressed creativity.
Event: #Nudgestock, Folkestone, UK, Part I
Yesterday I was pleased to attend the #Nudgestock conference, organised by Ogilvy Change, in Folkestone, Kent. It was a superbly thought provoking event with research and practice in behavioural economics.
Safe and Sorry – New Kurzgesagt video
If you know me in real life, you probably didn’t know me for very long before realising that privacy and mass surveillance are some of my hot topics, which I could discuss for several hours without much of a break.
THAT NEJM editorial and Kaggle
What is particularly interesting about this article and the debate it ignited (or soured, depending on how you look at it) is that it seems blind to the increasing interdisciplinary trend in data science – of which medicine is an obvious part – where fresh eyes find new ways to understand a problem.
Radovan Karadzic conviction: statistics and Human Rights
Yesterday in the Hague, Radovan Karadzic was convicted for 40 years for his role in the Bosnian war. What some people may not know is that statistical analysis of migrational movements and killings was one of the ways external observers demonstrated that there was a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing in Serbia.
