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10/05/2012 @ 9:24AM |2,449 views  What Makes Analytics Wizards
So Good? They Do Everything Backwards  Pinball Wizard  Pinball
Wizard (Photo credit: Wikipedia)      What is the sound of noise
not happening?    Ask a stupid question, get a clever-sounding
answer  The good analysts begin with questions informed by the
characteristics of the data, and then go to the details. The
adequate ones begin with data gymnastics informed by pet
questions (or questions that make them appear clever), and then
head for even more details (so as to look even more clever). The
good ones may spend a lot of time apparently idling with
definitions, but they realize that it seldom happens that when
you ask a stupid question you get a brilliant answer. Before
they begin building models or crunching numbers, the good ones
know what the data can and cannot do. The adequate ones are
preoccupied with questions about what the data can do at various
stages in the analysis, and g