data science

Writing is a critical skill — perhaps the most important — of all the skills required to analyze data. The only way to get better at writing is to write, ideally every day.

Rohan Alexander, Telling Stories with Data

Whenever you’re learning a new tool, for a long time, you’re going to suck… But the good news is that is typical; that’s something that happens to everyone, and it’s only temporary.

Hadley Wickham

To a certain extent we are wasting our time. We have a perfect model of the world—it is the world! But it is too complicated.

Rohan Alexander, Telling Stories With Data

Patterns when telling stories with data: - What is the dataset? Who generated the dataset and why? - What is the process that underpins the dataset? Given that process, what is missing from the dataset or has been poorly measured? Could other datasets have been generated, and if so, how different could they have been to the one that we have? - What