Data

Preventing Data Deception

We are continuing our data transparency and effectiveness theme with Data Deception, which I describe as using large numbers without context to excite someone into believing you are more successful than you have been. I wanted to write about this after listening to an episode of The Freakonomics Podcast, in which they discussed data fabrication. […]

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Championing Data Transparency

Data / Bill Hunt

Data transparency is essential to build trust and confidence from those who use it to make decisions. Unfortunately, too often, when asked to review the data model, we are told it is confidential or, better yet, proprietary. The Freakonomics podcast recently had multiple episodes on candles within the academic research community due to other researchers

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