Thinking in Data
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The document discusses overcoming cognitive biases and making data-driven decisions. It addresses topics like system 1 thinking, evaluating data distributions, alternatives to pie charts, the serial position effect, data visualization giving confidence without effort, bewareing the streetlight effect, and using data expression, interactivity, search, and animation to uncover hidden truths in data and learn relationships. The presentation encourages thinking with data to make better decisions.
Thinking in Data
- 1. #DPL15 | @bengarvey Thinking in Data Overcome cognitive biases and make data driven decisions Ben Garvey | Senior Engineer, RJMetrics
- 2. #DPL15 | @bengarvey You have a super power
- 5. #DPL15 | @bengarvey Pick out the largest and the smallest
- 6. #DPL15 | @bengarvey What does the distribution look like?
- 7. #DPL15 | @bengarvey How about from this distance?
- 8. #DPL15 | @bengarvey Pie Charts
- 9. #DPL15 | @bengarvey Pie ChartsWhy Are Evil
- 10. #DPL15 | @bengarvey Pick out the largest and the smallest
- 12. #DPL15 | @bengarvey Alternatives Stacked Bars Treemaps Stephen Few’s Save the Pies for Dessert
- 13. #DPL15 | @bengarvey This is not the last mile of your data pipeline
- 14. #DPL15 | @bengarvey This is the last mile of your data pipeline
- 15. #DPL15 | @bengarvey Your Nemesis The Serial Position Effect
- 17. #DPL15 | @bengarvey Hermann Ebbinghaus
- 19. #DPL15 | @bengarvey Ego depletion is real
- 20. #DPL15 | @bengarvey Data visualization gives you confidence in state and trend without effort
- 23. #DPL15 | @bengarvey Metrics can’t do everything
- 25. #DPL15 | @bengarvey Beware the streetlight effect
- 26. Data Expression Explore data to uncover hidden truths and learn the rules of the game
- 27. Interactivity
- 28. Search Mandel Bulldog Budget Zoomable Treemap
- 29. Lineage: Genealogical expression engine network graph Animation
- 30. Animation Higher dimensionality, complex relationships Search Scalable for huge data sets Interactivity One dataset, more perspectives Data Expression