Through a combination of luck and competence, my home state of Karnataka has handled the Covid-19 crisis rather well. While the total number of cases detected in the state edged past 2000 recently, the number of locally transmitted cases detected each day has hovered in the 20-25 range. It might make news that Karnataka has…
Anscombe’s Quartet and Analytics
Many “analytics professionals” or “quants” I know or have worked with have no hesitation in diving straight into a statistical model when they are faced with a problem, rather than trying to understand the data. However, that is not the way I work. Whenever I set out solving a new problem, I start with spending…