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Serious data porn for true connoisseurs

19 pointsby mjfernover 14 years ago

4 comments

knowtheoryover 14 years ago
This isn't data porn, nor is it for true connoisseurs.<p>A lot of this is seemingly random correlation with very little explanatory power.<p>Good info-vis and data summarization provides insight, or at least reveals relationships that are otherwise unseen or obscured.<p>These are polls without conclusions.<p>My psycholinguistics prof at uni was fond of saying that the more factors one considers the more likely you are to find spurious correlations. This sentiment makes me both lukewarm to and skeptical of any of the conclusions drawn on the hunch blog.
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abcd_fover 14 years ago
Correlation is not a causation.
forkandwaitover 14 years ago
Darn, I thought it porn data, not data porn... <i>ducks</i>
rhizomeover 14 years ago
lame.