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Stop aggregating away the signal in your data - Stack Overflow Blog

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By aggregating our data in an effort to simplify it, we lose the signal and the context we need to make sense of what we’re seeing.

For five years as a data analyst, I forecasted and analyzed Google’s revenue. For six years as a data visualization specialist, I’ve helped clients and colleagues discover new features of the data they know best. Time and time again, I’ve found that by being more specific about what’s important to us and embracing the complexity in our data, we can discover new features in that data. These features can lead us to ask better data-driven questions that change how we analyze our data, the parameters we choose for our models, our scientific processes, or our business strategies. My colleagues Ian

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