Data Analysis as Art

Matsui, E. & Peng, R. D. The Art of Data Science. (Leanpub, 2015).

• General introduction
• Song writing / data analysis
• Donald Knuth
• Creativity
• Reproducibility

• Welcome all
• About me
• About you
• About us
• I forget

• How do you write a song?
• Can computers write songs?
• How do you do you conduct data analysis?
• Can machines really learn?

• Computer Programing as Art, 1974

The chief goal of my work as educator and author is to help people learn how to write beautiful programs.

• There is art and creativity in software and statistics
• Literate programming

• Data analysis has an element of creativity
• Right-brained creativity
• It is the decisions that we make
• Analyst intuition

• Scientific method remains important
• Analyst are like pilots
• Will you be able to reproduce your work in a year?
• Use of generalizable methods helps