Early mornings are just so refreshing this time of year. The weather is changing. The leaves are falling off the trees. And the incoming streams of data just keep getting more interesting. Here is this weeks gust of data stories.
Check out last week’s data stories and be sure to check in next week for more updates.
Spooky Data – Best places to spend Halloween
Forget about trying to find the neighborhoods that hands trick-or-treaters full-sized Snicker bars. Here’s the data on best places to celebrate Halloween
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/best-places-celebrate-halloween-2021-110022026.html
Data Storytelling – Numbers don’t lie, but they do sorta fib sometimes
While numbers don’t lie, they can certainly be misleading. This highlights the importance of data storytelling and the dangers of only focusing on raw data.
https://diginomica.com/numbers-dont-lie-data-storytelling-context
Fraud Fighting Bots Go Undercover
So seems that the solution to fraud bots is anti-fraud bots.
https://venturebeat.com/2021/10/13/are-web-data-platforms-the-best-defense-against-ad-fraud/
Double Shot of Data
Collecting data about everyone’s coffee is a classical statistical exercise. Someone may have taken it way too seriously.
Thing about this: Everything you see online at some point passes thru these submarine cables:
That’s it for this week’s Data Stories. See you all next week
