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Why Nonprofits Shouldn’t Use Statistics

Depict Data Studio

— Thank you to Ann Emery, Depict Data Studio, and her Simple Spreadsheets class for inviting us to talk to them about the use of statistics in nonprofit program evaluation! But then we realized that much of the time, statistics just don’t have much of a role in nonprofit work. Why Nonprofits Shouldn’t Use Statistics.

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Synthetic data’s fine line between reward and disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

It can even be used for controlled experimentation, assuming you can make it accurate enough. Accurate amplification Created properly, synthetic data mimics statistical properties and patterns of real-world data without containing actual records from the original dataset, says Jarrod Vawdrey, field chief data scientist at Domino Data Lab.

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Top 8 predictive analytics tools compared

CIO Business Intelligence

The tools include sophisticated pipelines for gathering data from across the enterprise, add layers of statistical analysis and machine learning to make projections about the future, and distill these insights into useful summaries so that business users can act on them. Visual IDE for data pipelines; RPA for rote tasks. Highlights.

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Visualizing Distributions

Darkhorse

There is a near infinite variety of visualization methods within our field. FlowingData has given us 9 ways to visualize proportions and 11 ways for changes over time. Strip plots in the flesh: NPR looks at school funding The LA Times on pop music’s evolution Eurostat’s key European statistics Jittered Strip Plot.

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The top 15 big data and data analytics certifications

CIO Business Intelligence

Candidates are required to complete a minimum of 12 credits, including four required courses: Algorithms for Data Science, Probability and Statistics for Data Science, Machine Learning for Data Science, and Exploratory Data Analysis and Visualization. The exam consists of 40 questions and the candidate has 120 minutes to complete it.

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12 data science certifications that will pay off

CIO Business Intelligence

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) forecasts employment of data scientists will grow 35% from 2022 to 2032, with about 17,000 openings projected on average each year. You should also have experience with pattern detection, experimentation in business optimization techniques, and time-series forecasting.

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Glossary of Digital Terminology for Career Relevance

Rocket-Powered Data Science

Computer Vision: Data Mining: Data Science: Application of scientific method to discovery from data (including Statistics, Machine Learning, data visualization, exploratory data analysis, experimentation, and more). They cannot process language inputs generally. Examples: (1) Automated manufacturing assembly line. (2)