The BBC has some very good analysis of the Brexit vote (how long back was that?), using voting data at the local authority level, and correlating it with factors such as ethnicity and educational attainment. In terms of educational attainment, there is a really nice chart, that shows the proportion of voters who voted to…
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…