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Finding the story in your data

Finding the story in your data

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Finding the story in your data

- [Instructor] If you're a data analyst, you're familiar and comfortable rooting through data looking for patterns, trends, and outliers. But are you always thinking about the stories you might be telling with that information? And for those of you who aren't data people, even digging through the data itself might be a bit overwhelming. I want to show you just a bit about how to work with data to tease out the stories. Whether you're a data analyst or just a regular person. To do this, we're going to look at some real data. I have a list of over 16,000 characters in the Marvel Comics universe. This particular list comes from FiveThirtyEight which did a data story on this a few years back. As you can see I have a variety of attributes for each character. One of which is something called their alignment. Just to field called align. Whether they're good or bad. Now that's interesting, right? And before I start, I…

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