Tom Breur 7 July 2023 Descriptive statistics is about collecting, organizing, summarizing, and presenting data (Bluman, 2018). I am constantly surprised how few people…| Data, Analytics and beyond
Tom Breur 26 April 2023 Missing data are an unavoidable fact of life – and an inconvenient one at that for data scientists. Sometimes data are “missing” because there is no value expected, these da…| Data, Analytics and beyond
Tom Breur 10 August 2022 A question sometimes comes up whether data science projects should be “theory driven”, or whether discoveries from data alone can be sufficient to guide the work, i.e. be “…| Data, Analytics and beyond
Tom Breur 22 September 2021 Introduction Simpson’s paradox is a relatively well-known statistical oddity: patterns at a more granular level appear to change into the opposite direction, relative to…| Data, Analytics and beyond
Tom Breur 24 May 2020 BF Skinner (1904-1990) was an influential psychologist, best known for his experiments on animals, like pigeons in a cage (called “Skinner Box”) pecking a lever to collect rew…| Data, Analytics and beyond
Tom Breur 3 May 2020 Machine learning is quickly becoming a commodity. As demand for this capacity continues to grow while data scientists remain in high demand and short supply, the next obvious s…| Data, Analytics and beyond
Tom Breur 8 December 2019 Organizations of all sizes are starting to embrace data science. How best to govern that journey to adoption? Mostly, these will be fairly small teams, say, 3-10 data scie…| Data, Analytics and beyond
Tom Breur 31 August 2019 The job market is “hot”, and data science skills are in high demand. Yet many junior data scientists are struggling to get ahead. How can that be? Is it because ever…| Data, Analytics and beyond
Tom Breur 13 August 2019 Recently, I was reading a whitepaper from a large vendor: “ … access to democratized data” and it got me wondering. What does “data democracy” stand for? The way the phrase…| Data, Analytics and beyond
Tom Breur 18 May 2022 Anyone who has worked with data long enough will recognize this scenario: your analysis surfaces some particularly odd and intriguing result, which upon further inspection tur…| Data, Analytics and beyond
