Tag: best-practice
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Why deeply caring about the analysis isn't always a good thing?
Does Caring About the Analysis Matter? The simplystatistics.org blog had an interesting discussion about podcast Roger Peng from simplystatistics.org recorded on A/B testing on Etsy. One of the late conclusions...
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In defense of double-scale and double Y axes
If you had a chance to talk to me about data visualization, you know that I dislike the use of double Y-axis for anything except for presenting different units of...
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Don't take career advises from people who mistreat graphs this badly
Recently, I stumbled upon a report called “Understanding Today’s Chief Data Scientist” published by an HR company called Heidrick & Struggles. This document tries to draw a profile of the...
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What's the most important thing about communicating uncertainty?
Sigrid Keydana, in her post Plus/minus what? Let’s talk about uncertainty (talk) — recurrent null, said What’s the most important thing about communicating uncertainty? You’re doing it Really? Here, for...
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How to make a graph less readable? Rotate the text labels
This is my “because you can” rant. Here, you can see a typical situation. You have some sales data that you want to represent using a bar plot. Immediately, you...
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Good information + bad visualization = BAD
I went through my Machine Learning tag feed. Suddenly, I stumbled upon a pie chart that looked so terrible, I was sure the post would be about bad practices in...
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What are the best practices in planning & interpreting A/B tests?
Compiled by my teammate Yanir Serourssi, the following is a reading list an A/B tests that you should read even if you don’t plan to perform an A/B test anytime...