analysis

This week we imagine what we would do if the tool we relied on the most were to disappear.

This week, I heard that stats are for losers. I had to check it out, because I’ve always thought stats were for winners.

This is the 300th weekly issue of The Process. Have things changed? Do we visualize data differently now? Where is this headed?

When you analyze data, there are times when a trend, pattern, or outlier jumps out and smacks you in the face. Or, you might calculate results that seem surprising. Maybe they’re real, but maybe not.

There was a time when big infographics ruled, and then their popularity faded as quickly as it came. It wasn’t because of their size though, which might have been the only thing right about them.

To teach, learn, and measure the process of analysis more concretely, Lucy D’Agostino…

There’s visualization for analysis. There’s visualization for presentation. There’s overlap between the groups, but the differences require a varied approach.

Analysis and visualization are often a messy process that never matches up to the step-by-step guides you read, but that’s normal.

The visualizations are used and read differently, which requires that you approach their design differently.

If the charts themselves are fairly straightforward without any dubious design choices, are you still “lying with charts” when only the data itself was manipulated?

Roger Peng discusses the importance of managing the relationships between people — analyst,…

Enrico Bertini, a professor at New York University, delves into the less flashy…

Jeff Leek touches on concerns about point-and-click software to find the insights in…

Alex Reinhart, a PhD statistics student at Carnegie Mellon University, covers some of…

Reality Prose has an excellent analysis on the changing price of LEGO bricks…

Visual.ly analyzed the top 30 infographics posted on their site and determined that…

Richard Florida for The Atlantic takes a closer look at hate groups in…