No, thanks. Unions make jobs go overseas.

Lol. I’m not worried about the pinkos, they have no backbone.

I’m also in no way a professional writer.

I have one. It also sucks to ride for an hour, you’re eaither sweating, freezing or some other form of uncomfortable.

If you’re really interested…

Let’s say you want to know how an ad has affected your sales since it was released 3 months ago.

You could put every single sale as a dot on a graph, but it probably wouldn’t mean anything. Even if it showed the dots gradually getting higher on the chart. Was that caused by the ad or does it happen every year at the se time? What other factors could have caused this.

So I’ll pause right there and say you will never know. You will never know all the forces that affect trends. You can get relatively close, but not. Does weather affect your sales? Delivery time? Internet sentiment?

So that’s not very scientific, right? You need to know and control all variables to test an outcome.

Anyway, so you have a graph with dots and it may or may not mean anything. You think, ok what was last year’s sales during these same 3 months?

So you get last year’s data and plot the sales as dots in a different color. Now you have a graph with a ton of dots of two colors, and best case scenario: the dots for this year are higher than last year.

Is it responsible to stop there? If it were me, and my money, I’d want to make sure. So then you’d compare data from two years ago. Now you have a chart with three colors of dots.

Again, best case, this year is higher than that year too. However, as always is the case, the dots are getting difficult to understand, especially for people that don’t know anything about data. You need to make things simple to digest.

So you say “I’ll make an average of each month” and that will show how the averages are getting bigger, compared to previous years. Great!

So you average all the dots by month and plot them on a graph, and it looks great. But there are a few months that don’t prove what you saw in the raw data. For instance, one month, two years ago, you landed a big contract and sold an astronomical number of units. So that month is the biggest one of all.

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Ok, no problem, you’ll just remove those two data points, because they are skewing the day. Again, this is best case. Most of the time you will not be sure if these data points are errors in the data or Genuine sales. But anyway…

Luckily there is a method for removing “outliers” it’s called standard deviation, and it’s basically an equation that figures out what is an acceptable outlier and what isn’t.

Again, I’ll pause here to point out how unscientific this is. You are removing data because it doesn’t follow the trend you want to show. And this is a perfectly acceptable practice in data analytics. And I’ll point out something else, what was the affect of those contracts on your normal business sales? Did you make relatively less sales because of it? Is it responsible to completely remove those sales? Is it ethical?

And this is all very minor stuff in analytics. The more detailed the question, the more the data is “cleansed” by equations that get progressively more complicated - the more ethically vague the data is.

How about this weather?

Don’t underestimate small talk. It lets people take their wall down.

Data analyst here. It really do be like that. You can use stats to prove anything.

Yfw they say data doesn’t lie. Looool

Yeah, I’m not going to spend 6 hours driving a bicycle to work and back.

I am that uncle. I’m just doing what I have to to survive.

If I could buy a new car I would. I’d get an electric, self-driving pleasure machine, but no way I can afford it.

Maybe when this thing breaks down (it’s already 15 yrs old).

A $200k horror movie that can be out in 3 months. It’s about a serial killer who steals the teeth from his victims.

My script mixes highly defined characters, supernatural cosmic horror, and old world body horror. It’s goes off the rails in terrifying and fun ways.

Ps: I actually have a script ready to go and have no hangups about scabbing.

I think op hasn’t heard of web components. Technically it requires js, but still it will replace react and angular and vue soon me thinks.

Reddit has actually gotten a lot better since the Exodus. All the political activists have come here.

Right. Magically, everyone on the Internet has become infatuated with communism out of thin air over the last few years. Must just be my paranoia to surggest influence from a hostile government.

Lemmy is whatever we make it, except for the communism posts that love communism until they realize workers need representation. I half believe those are Chinese bots or high school kids who are stupid enough to believe the Chinese bots.

Works out for me, cheesy Xmas movies are a treasure. Plus, if they’re Hallmark, oh fuck, that’s good.

That’s a bummer. The first season was good… Except that bottle episode… Can TV just stop doing bottle episodes?

Dune is exactly what Lucas was copying when he wrote Star wars.

No, I’m having a good time seeing how many ways you can call me stupid because you feel so butthurt.

Ok buddy. I’m sorry to have upset you.

I’m also a data analyst, so I sense sarcasm, but in case you’re not:

A big beef is excel can’t handle decimals larger than 6 places iirc. So if you copy/paste, it will delete your data accuracy. Is that not fucking insane? I mean think about that for a second… The most popular data table in the world will delete your data.

There’s a whole laundry list of other things I can complain about, but the bottom line is they bought it from another company, then stopped working on it. It’s Microsoft’s entire business model: Buy it, charge for it, ignore it.

Microsoft Everything.

Boy, I sure can’t wait till VSCode and GitHub become as annoying as excel to use!