Anscombe's Quartet - the importance of graphs! Anscombe's Quartet was devised by the statistician Francis Anscombe to illustrate how important it was to not just rely on statistical measures when analyzing data. To do this he created 4 data sets which would produce nearly identical statistical measures. The scatter graphs above generated by the Python... Continue Reading →
Premier League Wages Predict League Positions?
Is there a correlation between Premier League wages and league position? Let's explore this by looking at the 2012-13 Premier League season data analysis - which shows exactly how much each club in the Premier League spent on wages last year (see the bar chart below). This can be easily plotted on a scatter graph... Continue Reading →