[Husker] Illustrating where prized recruits sign
Paul Dalen
quesohusker at gmail.com
Wed Feb 6 21:35:27 CST 2013
I put a visualization of the 2013 of the 2013 Big Ten recruits on my blog.
http://huskermath.blogspot.com/2013/02/visualizing-2013-big-ten-recruits.html
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Jon Johnston <jon.johnston at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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