[Husker] Illustrating where prized recruits sign

Jon Johnston jon.johnston at gmail.com
Wed Feb 6 20:41:52 CST 2013


That leaves you as a watch dog, man. You're in the best position possible. While data visualization tools like Tableau give the ability to do more interesting things, that just means that people will use data to draw their own conclusions instead of the other way around, or to misrepresent data purposefully to show what they wish: 

http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=3024

I don't mean to turn that into a political discussion, BTW. 

It's just that as these tools become more prevalent, the more skeptical we all need to become. 

Jon Johnston
Corn Nation

On Feb 5, 2013, at 10:13 PM, Paul Dalen <quesohusker at gmail.com> wrote:

> Even tho the writer's work was slightly less accurate than simply guessing at the results, I took it to mean that any idiot with a computer is now a statistician. 
> 
> Not sure where that leaves me...
> 
> Paul Dalen



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