Making The Data Work For You

Greetings from Washington, D.C. and the opening of The 2015 OPEN MINDS Technology and Informatics Institute. During our pre-institute workshops today, my mind wandered back to this quote:

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." Mark Twain in Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review

When I first studied statistics all those many years ago, this was the quote presented by my professor on the first moment of the first day of my first graduate-level statistics course. Over the years, I've come to accept there is a . . .