Concepts
The interpretive choices that precede analysis determine outcomes more than technical skill.
The Lenses
Framing
What question am I answering?
Signal
What patterns actually matter?
Judgment
What choices am I making (often unconsciously)?
Humility
What can't I know, and how does that change everything?
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Before You Apply: The Inference Phase Everyone Pretends Doesn’t Exist
Before anyone applies for a job, they have already made a judgment about whether it is worth their time. That judgment is rarely based on evidence. It is based on inference — drawn from a limited set of visible signals that stand in for a much larger unknown. This article does not attempt to correct those inferences. It examines the informational environment that makes them feel reasonable.
"What We Talk About In Plain Byte: Why Your Data Conclusions Might Be Wrong Before You Start"
Two people look at the same data and reach opposite conclusions. The problem isn't the data—it's how the question got framed, which metrics got chosen, and what comparisons got made. An introduction to examining interpretation choices in data analysis.