Here’s a tool for finding and analyzing modern English translations of Old French fabliaux. It’s call the fabliaux bibliographic dataset. … Read the post Old French fabliaux in modern English translations
Big data and controlled experiments are tools for thinking, not substitutes for thinking. … Read the post big data and controlled experiments
A good search engine for data would make the web more enlightening. Lack of a good business model may be keeping users in data darkness. … Read the post building a data search engine
Needle and Thread allows you to understand statistics by seeing how they’re calculated and enabling experiments with alternatives. … Read the post describing statistics
Which is a better, one big table, or two or more smaller tables? The organization of the data sources, the number of smaller tables, the extent of the relationships between the smaller tables, and economies in table processing all affect the balance of advantage. But cheaper storage, cheaper computing power, and fancier data tools probably … Continue reading badly structured tables have a bright future
Sometimes tables are messy not just in their data items, but also in the fields that define the table columns.[1] Various techniques help to deal with such “second order” messiness. Sorting table fields alphabetically or evaluating them with more powerful text similarity measures help to identify inadvertently duplicated fields. Sorting table fields by the … Continue reading exploring and remodeling table fields
Even in this age of big data, most persons collect data in spreadsheets. Two challenges are common with spreadsheet data, particularly spreadsheet data collected from a variety of sources. First, you need to understand what numbers you have. That means both the definition of a specific number and the presence or absence of particular numbers. … Continue reading describing and organizing spreadsheet data