How to consume statistical analysis

I am giving a talk next week for the Data Science Group in Cambridge.  It's part six of the Leading Analytics series:

Building your Analytical Skill set

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• Tuesday, September 24, 2013

  6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

• Microsoft

  1 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA (map)

  Commons

• Price: $10.00/per person

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The subtitle is "How to be a good consumer of statistical analysis."  My goal is to present (in about 70 minutes) some basic statistical knowledge a manager should have to work with an analysis team.

Part of the talk is about how to interact with the team: I will talk about an exploration process that is collaborative between analysts and managers, and iterative.

And then I'll introduce topics in statistics, including lots of material from this blog:

• The CDF: the best, and sadly underused, way to visualize distributions.

• Scatterplots, correlation and regression: how to visualize and quantify relationships between variables.

• Hypothesis testing: the most abused tool in statistics.

• Estimation: quantifying and working with uncertainty.

• Visualization: how to use the most powerful and versatile data analysis system in the world, human vision.

Here are the slides I'm planning to present:

Hope you can attend!