March 27, 2013

Does data visualisation matter?

“I wish there were more examples where data viz actually mattered. The case studies for us to lean on are sparser than they should be.”

Amanda Cox, NY Times chartmaker, interviewed at Harvard Business Review.  Includes a graph showing how the same unemployment report might be viewed by partisans of opposing parties.

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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »