“Default Position Should Be Skepticism” and other advice for data journalists

Hadley Wickham
(Courtesy of Hadley Wickham)

I help teach a data science class at Stanford, and I was just looking through this dataset on emergency room visits in the United States. Wickham: Learn a little bit of R and basic data analysis skills. Wickham: One of the challenges of data is that if you can quantify something precisely, people interpret it as being more “truthy.”

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