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Kaiser Fung: Exploring advanced histograms

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Kaiser Fung:  Exploring advanced histograms

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Abstract: The histogram is a fundamental statistical chart. The simplest histogram is easy to make and interpret. More advanced variations of the histogram pose surprising challenges. I will cover insights from my recent exploration of varying-width histograms, which revealed gaps in my own understanding of this deceptively simple chart form.

Bio: Kaiser is the creator of Junk Charts, a leading blog on data visualization, as well as the author of two bestsellers on statistical thinking, Numbers Rule Your World and Numbersense. His commentary on statistics and data visualization has been featured in Harvard Business Review, The Daily Beast, American Scientist, Wired, FiveThirtyEight, Slate, Financial Times, and CNN. He was the founding director of the Master of Science in Applied Analytics at Columbia University. He leads the data science team at VERSES, a cognitive computing startup.

This event will be hosted at the Datadog NYC office (45th floor), with refreshments provided. Doors open at 5:45. Attendees are asked to respect the meetup's Code of Conduct.

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