Donald Trump has become well-known for attacking people, news agencies, and even his own cabinet, using Twitter. AXIOS, a new media company, has visualized these attacks using a sankey diagram. Here is a blurb how AXIOS describe themselves. AXIOS is a new media company delivering vital, trustworthy news and analysis in the most efficient, illuminating… Continue Reading
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Readers: Last week I attended the Tableau Conference 2017 in Las Vegas. Since many people are blogging about the conference (14,000+ attended), I decided to just focus on the four data myths discussed by Adam Selipsky, CEO of Tableau Software, and the great data governance practices overview presented by Sheri Benzelock, VP of Business Analytics Transformation… Continue Reading
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Readers: Like most of you, I have been following the “500-year flood” (some news sources have now upgraded it to the 1,000-year flood) caused by Hurricane Harvey, which made landfall on Aug. 25 on Rockport, TX. Rainfall reached more than 50 inches in some parts of Houston, which would be equal to the amount of precipitation… Continue Reading
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Dante’s Inferno, widely hailed as one of the great classics of Western literature, details Dante’s journey through the nine circles of Hell. The voyage begins during Easter week in the year 1300, the descent through Hell starting on Good Friday. After meeting his guide, the eminent Roman poet Virgil, in a mythical dark wood, the… Continue Reading
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“Be approximately right, rather than exactly wrong.” –John Tukey From Christopher Doyle on Twitter.
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First published in 1865, this fantastical story was all inspired by one ordinary 10-year-old girl named Alice Liddell (photo, above). The young mathematician Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) had a wild imagination and loved telling outlandish tales that his adult friends just couldn’t appreciate. Alice and her two sisters, however, were absorbed in… Continue Reading
