Importance of combining data analysis with context (reflections on readings from week two)

Posted by on Jan 11, 2010 in Blog, class, data visualizations, theory, tufte | No Comments

“Visual and Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions,” Edward Tufte, Visual Explanations This chapter gave practical examples of something I’ve been saying from almost the first day of my data analysis journey — that it’s absolutely fundamental that the decisions behind the analysis are shown to the reader/user.  Data’s never perfect, and if ...

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