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Get interesting stories about data in everyday life, plus practical tips on data analysis and visualization for your business.

Deciphering information and misinformation: Inspired by the book "A Field Guide to Lies and Statistics"

They are in combat side-by-side, staring back at you like identical twins, one of them will help you...

  • by Aspasia Daskalopoulou

Quick Data Lessons: Data Dredging

At Geckoboard, we’re on a mission to help people use data more simply and effectively. We’ve...

  • by Adele Simor

Quick Data Lessons: Cherry Picking

At Geckoboard, we’re on a mission to help people use data more simply and effectively. We’ve...

  • by Adele Simor

Quick Data Lessons: Survivorship Bias

At Geckoboard, we’re on a mission to help people use data more simply and effectively. We’ve...

  • by Adele Simor

How Facebook’s “7 friends in 10 days” got everyone confused about correlation and causation

With easy access to more data than we’ve ever had before, it’s important we don’t...

  • by Ben Newell

We visualized acquisitions by the Big Five tech companies since 1985, here’s what we learned

Given the tech acquisition rumors swirling around Twitter at the moment, we thought it’d be interesting to...

  • by Simon Whittick

What’s the Best Way to Visualize Your Data? A Handy Flowchart to Help

One of our engineers, Klara, was curious whether there was a set of guidelines to help people choose...

  • by Nick Smith

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