Statistics & Data Mining

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How to pick the right stats test

7 Basic Rules for Making Charts and Graphs

Charts and graphs have found their way into news, presentations, and comics, with users from art to design to statistics. http://flowingdata.com/2010/07/22/7-basic-rules-for-making-charts-and-graphs/
Data Mining Data Mining is an analytic process designed to explore data (usually large amounts of data - typically business or market related - also known as "big data") in search of consistent patterns and/or systematic relationships between variables, and then to validate the findings by applying the detected patterns to new subsets of data. The ultimate goal of data mining is prediction - and predictive data mining is the most common type of data mining and one that has the most direct business applications.

Data Mining, Predictive Modeling, Techniques

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http://flowingdata.com/2010/03/04/think-like-a-statistician-without-the-math/

Think like a statistician – without the math

I call myself a statistician, because, well, I'm a statistics graduate student.