Apropos of the reading for Thursday, I thought you might be interested in checking out the syllabus for an unofficial course from a pair of professors at UW, “Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data.” The goal of this course is “to teach you how to think critically about the data and models that constitute evidence in the social and natural sciences”
This page, which offers guidelines on how to find misleading analysis in data visualizations, might be especially useful this semester.
