The Clark's Nutcracker has landed! That's the bird on the cover of Advancing into Analytics, copies of which I received the other day. There's that new author enthusiasm! You can now get your …
Code Is Poetry, but GIFs Are Divine: Developing Effective Technical Instruction
I was slated to be the second-stringer for a big client project. The lead had held posts at prestigious outfits like Boston Consulting and Pricewaterhouse and had an impressive retinue of technical …
Demo guide: the margin of error, visualized in Excel
You've likely heard on the news that a certain poll has a "margin of error of +/- 3%." What does that mean, really? What is a margin of …
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Learning guide: Introduction to R, one-day workshop
The below download is part of my resource library. For exclusive free access, subscribe.If your organization is interested in this or other analytics training, get in touch. When I was an …
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Why Excel is the best way to learn data analytics
The more I advance into analytics, the more I come back to Excel as a teaching and prototyping tool. Yes, of course, Excel has its weaknesses -- but as a medium for learning, it's unmatched. Here's …
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Demo guide: The law of large numbers in Excel
I know very little about gambling. But these very literal "games of probability" make great examples for teaching statistics. The law of large …
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