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The Quiet Revival and Garbage In, Gospel Out: Why Data Due Diligence Can’t Be Outsourced

March 26, 2026 1 Comment

In 2024, the Bible Society falsely claimed a “Quiet Revival” in UK church attendance based on flawed data from YouGov. After a retraction, the Society acknowledged that their beliefs influenced acceptance of the inaccurate results. The incident underscores the importance of data diligence, internal validation, and skepticism toward overly favorable outcomes to prevent confirmation bias.

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University of Washington Foundations of Data Analysis Course

October 23, 2019 No Comments

I’m pleased to announce that the University of Washington are running a Foundations of Data Analysis course, starting in January 2020.  In this 10-week course, you’ll learn how to understand and analyze data. We’ll start with fundamental data-related concepts, terminology and ethical considerations. You’ll learn how to articulate business problems and identify required data. Using Microsoft Excel and SQL, you’ll practice gathering, cleaning and organizing data. Finally you’ll use Tableau to effectively describe, analyze and visualize data.

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Custom Modules for #AzureML

December 19, 2018 1 Comment

Have you seen the custom modules for AzureML yet? One neat custom module that I’ve been using is the Create Scatterplot module, which uses ggplot2

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