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<\/a>.” 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”<\/span><\/p>\n

This page, which offers guidelines on how to find misleading analysis in data visualizations<\/a>, might be\u00a0especially useful this semester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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