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  Statistics in the Triad, Part VI: The Story as Unit of Observation

  Posted on July 28, 2017 by Steve in Narrative, SenseMaker®, Sensemaking, Statistics, Visualization

  If you had asked me a year ago to identify the primary unit of observation in a SenseMaker project, I would have said, without much hesitation, it’s the story, of course. When I started writing Part IV in this series on Confidence Regions, however, I had to revisit that question. I knew what was typically […]

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  Tom Brady and the Intrinsic Narrative

  Posted on March 2, 2017 by Steve in Narrative, SenseMaker®

  A few Sunday evenings ago, I watched Super Bowl LI, the climactic game of the 2016-17 season of the National Football League. With the loss and exit by the Dallas Cowboys earlier in the playoffs, I had no emotional stake in the outcome of the game, but at least some of the TV commercials might be […]

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  The Man Who Mistook His Graph for a Hat

  Posted on March 18, 2015 by Steve in Cognitive Edge, Sensemaking

    Equilateral triangles have been used as a graphical tool for presenting compositional data for at least 150 years, most prominently in geology, metallurgy, and related areas of physical chemistry; archeology and anthropology; and population studies, including genetics. According to Howarth (1996)[paywall], they were also used as early as the 18th century to show mixing […]

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• ‘The Eggshell Thing’

  Posted on June 18, 2012 by Laurie in Cognitive Edge, Sensemaking

  This post originally appeared on the Cognitive Edge blog on December 15, 2010. My first project as an accredited practitioner was with a large international publisher that was trying to get a better sense of customer satisfaction with its products. I can still remember having some “disconnects” along the lines of, whoa, how does that […]

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