This is my favorite part about analytics: Taking boring flat data and bringing it to life through visualization.

This is my favorite part about analytics: Taking boring flat data and bringing it to life through visualization.

In a world in which the price of calculation continues to decrease rapidly, but the price of theorem proving continues to hold steady or increase, elementary economics indicates that we ought to spend a larger and larger fraction of our time on calculation.

In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence to the model you use to think about and plan about the experiment and its analysis, and thence to the true situation.

Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong.

When communicating results to non-technical types there is nothing better than a clear visualization to make your point.

The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.