A recent article in the magazine SCIENCE presents an important warning to those who see Big Data as the solution to all problems. The article (“The Parable of Google Flu: Traps in Big Data Analysis” by Lazer, Kennedy, King, and …
I came across this intereseting essay from Moritz Stefaner in which he outlines his perspectve on the recent focus on “storytelling” within the data visualization community. I largely agree with his thesis, especially his point about viewing a visualization designer …
This morning I came across this TED talk by Peter Donnelly. It was was originally posted way back in 2006, so this isn’t something new. However, it is worth a listen for anyone thinking about data science and its applications. …
Are P values the “gold standard” for statistically significant findings? From an article today that appeared today in Nature: “The irony is that when UK statistician Ronald Fisher introduced the P value in the 1920s, he did not mean it …
We generally tend to think of racial identifiers as static labels, an attribute we are born with like gender. I am—and have always been—a white male. Moreover, we know that cultural stereotypes around race have a strong influence on how …
