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Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be…
An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.

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The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.
This is my favorite part about analytics: Taking boring flat data and bringing it to life through visualization.
When communicating results to non-technical types there is nothing better than a clear visualization to make your point.
Visualization is often used for evil - twisting insignificant data changes and making them look meaningful. Don't do that crap if you…
One of my favorite ways to easily review results is Google Analytics Dashboards. Don't have dashboards set up? I can help you…
The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.
The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted…
In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence…

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