2017-10-04 Data Analysis as Art.Rpres

Data Analysis as Art
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author: schifferl
date: 2017-10-04
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Matsui, E. & Peng, R. D. *The Art of Data Science*. (Leanpub, 2015).

Topic overview
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- General introduction
- Song writing / data analysis
- Donald Knuth
- Creativity
- Reproducibility

General introduction
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- Welcome all
- About me
- About you
- About us
- I forget

Song writing / data analysis
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- How do you write a song?
- Can computers write songs?
- How do you do you conduct data analysis?
- Can machines really learn?

Donald Knuth
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- [Computer Programing as Art, 1974](http://www.paulgraham.com/knuth.html)

> The chief goal of my work as educator and author is to help people learn how to write beautiful programs.

- There is art and creativity in software and statistics
- Literate programming


Creativity
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- Data analysis has an element of creativity
- Right-brained creativity
- It is the decisions that we make
- Analyst intuition

Reproducibility
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- Scientific method remains important
- Analyst are like pilots
- Will you be able to reproduce your work in a year?
- Use of generalizable methods helps