Kaiser Fung, author of a new book, Numbersense a previous book, Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You Do and the popular blog, Junk Charts was my guest on two recent podcast. Kaiser is a professional statistician with over a decade of experience applying statistical methods to marketing Read More …
Let us say you have Google or even Facebook – you have a billion users. It is almost impossible for Google and Facebook to understand whom their customers are. Intuition or even just like talking to some customers is going to give you an extremely biased view. You are going to basically base your entire Read More …
If you have two sets of researchers who are telling you contradictory things, and they have their own data sets to support it; how do you tell which one is believable and which one is junk. In Numbersense, what I try to do is to give people, as you say, a framework to start thinking Read More …
I asked Kaiser Fung this question in my previous podcast, Interpretations of Data. The short answer to that question was Statistics is not there to eliminate or to cure variability. Variability is something that’s out there that cannot be cured. What statistics does is to create a way for us to measure the degree of Read More …
Kaiser Fung is a professional statistician with over a decade of experience applying statistical methods to marketing and advertising businesses. His acclaimed blog, Junk Charts, pioneered the critical examination of data and graphics in the mass media. Kaiser is my guest next week on the podcast and this is an excerpt from it. Kaiser recently Read More …
I will show my age a little here, but I actually remember the milkman with a cap, and I think a uniform. It was a Meadow Gold truck that, if I remember correctly was this faded yellow, practically beige with a red Meadow Gold insignia on the side. This is stretching back to my earliest Read More …