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Same data, different stories: How to manipulate the graphs to support your narrative
https://www.mobilespoon.net/2023/03/same-data-different-stories-how-to-manipulate-your-graphs.html • 5 min
How to shape the narrative with graph manipulation without sacrificing your credibility. The art of tweaking graphs to better support your story.
An introduction to data science and machine learning with Microsoft Excel
https://bdtechtalks.com/2020/12/22/excel-data-science-machine-learning • 6 min
Microsoft Excel is a powerful tool for learning the basics of data science and machine learning.
Dashboards Are Dead: 3 Years Later
https://towardsdatascience.com/dashboards-are-dead-3-years-later-72347757bfa6
What’s the purpose of dashboards in 2023?
Researchers Warn We Could Run Out of Data to Train AI by 2026. What Then?
https://singularityhub.com/2023/11/14/researchers-warn-we-could-run-out-of-data-to-train-ai-by-2026-what-then • 3 min
AI trained on ever-more data has yielded ChatGPT and DALL-E 3. But research shows online data stocks are growing more slowly than datasets used to train AI.
Spinning Data into Thought
https://towardsdatascience.com/spinning-data-into-thought-e8f89b417374
How Computers Think: Introduction
Are You Ready to Hire a Data Scientist? Advice for Founders
https://review.firstround.com/the-startup-founders-guide-to-hiring-a-data-scientist • 20+ min
Are you ready to hire a data scientist? Mengying Li, Growth Data Science Lead at Notion, shares her framework for testing whether you should invest in this key hire and how to find the right data…
Megastudy scepticism
https://www.jasoncollins.blog/posts/megastudy-scepticism • 20+ min
In December last year Katherine Milkman and friends published a “megastudy” testing 54 interventions to increase the gym visits of 61,000 experimental participants.
Meet Julia: The Future of Data Science
https://towardsdatascience.com/meet-julia-the-future-of-data-science-52414b29ebb
The next big thing, or just massively overhyped?
The limits of our personal experience and the value of statistics
https://ourworldindata.org/limits-personal-experience • 9 min
The world is huge; to get a clear idea of what our world is like, we have to rely on carefully collected, well documented statistics.
How Do They Know This?
https://quillette.com/2022/12/08/how-do-they-know-this • 5 min
An informative and apolitical new book reminds us that statistics are not always what they seem.
What is Reverse ETL? The Definitive Guide
https://hightouch.com/blog/reverse-etl • 12+ min
Learn everything there is to know about Reverse ETL, how it fits into the modern data stack, and why it's different than ETL.
Learn Julia For Beginners – The Future Programming Language of Data Science and Machine Learning Explained
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-julia-programming-language • 12+ min
Julia is a high-level, dynamic programming language, designed to give users the speed of C/C++ while remaining as easy to use as Python. This means that developers can solve problems faster and more…
The Myth of Objective Data
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-myth-of-objective-data • 6 min
When we view objectivity and subjectivity as opposites rather than complements, we distort the empirical realities of data collection.