Who hasn’t had a voice, either one’s own or someone else’s, raging at you for not being more ambitious? In Asterix and Obelix comics it is Impedimenta that nit-picks Vitalstatistix to rise above his station and to observe his rights as commander-in-chief.
On Saturday night I had voices cajoling me to improve my statistics, but impediments got in my way.
Sunday morning was D-Day.
8 am: pencils sharpened and calculators at the ready.
Try difficult questions on for size. How about T-statistics for vital statistics? And what about probability … I say it was probably a robbery.
The knowledge we started Statistics 6 weeks ago with and what we had on Sunday were two different views of the data world. Sunday was the pinnacle of our data omnipotence.
We were confronted with mountains of data, stacked in bits of bytes. We slowly sifted through the data stack. We prodded at first and then unpicked, unravelled, transformed and doctored the sample data.
At 10:55 am on Sunday morning we had a presentable decision: Statistics is vital.
See you at GIBS
