I was going to write a post with this exact title, and apparently based on the same data visualization that I saw yesterday. Ravi Parikh beat me to it, and listed three excellent ways to lie with data visualization. They are:
It’s an excellent post filled with examples. You should read it.
Dear FiveThirtyEight: I love you. You are the only ones doing awesome analyses such as looking at the 381 paintings done by PBS painter Bob Ross and analyzing his work. You gain such insights as:
About 18 percent of his paintings feature a cabin. Given that Ross painted a cabin, there’s a 35 percent chance that it’s on a lake, and a 40 percent chance there’s snow on the ground.
This might be the most readable article about conditional probability. My math degree feels much less lonely tonight.
Don Melton, one of the original developers of Safari, has shared some of his memories of Steve Jobs. It starts with this observation:
Anyone at Apple or Pixar — both large organizations — will tell you that Steve knowing your name was an honor. But also occasionally a terrifying responsibility. That was the bargain.
Great advice from Sarah Mei about how to approach writing conference proposals, including this:
If you relentlessly focus on answering “Why?”, your proposal will get more interest, more attendees, and better reviews.
I especially like that she takes a real example and breaks down ways to improve it. If you’re thinking about what you’ll submit to MacIT 2015, reading this will help you get into a frame of mind to create a great proposal.
The VMworld 2014 call for papers is now open! The deadline is May 2. More details are here.
Mac admins, I’d love to see some presentations about effectively virtualizing Mac environments. There’s lots of Mac users at VMworld. It’s time to show great examples of Mac virtualization beyond the desktop.
I’ve been way too busy to write up a post about how awesome MacIT 2014 was this year. For now, I’ll post public links to presentations that I’ve found:
For those of you who attended MacIT 2014, all of the presentations should be available on the website.
There were plenty of tweets during the week, including lots of pictures (many of which are pictures of slides). The hashtags #macit2014 and #macitconf were the ones that I found the most useful.
Edited 2014-04-06, 21:12: added “Essential Security & Risk Fundamentals”.
Edited 2014-04-07, 10:10: added “Building Better Users”.
Edited 2014-04-10, 14:09: added link to github repo for Facebook’s IT tools.
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