On the way to data lakes and Hadoop – Part 1
Jim Harris advocates addressing data quality and governance issues on the way to data lakes and Hadoop.
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Runs in coin tosses; patterns in random seating
If you toss a coin 28 times, you would not be surprised to see three heads in a row, such as ...THHHTH.... But what about eight heads in a row? Would a sequence such as THHHHHHHHTH... be a rare event? This question popped into my head last weekend as I
How to 'stack the deck' for a better graph!
To stack the deck means to cheat or to fix something so a desired outcome is achieved. This term originated in card games, but can also be applied to other things. And here, I apply it (both metaphorically and literally) to creating a better graph! I recently saw the following