How to Support your Data Interpretations

Whenever we attribute meaning to the results of a data project, we are interpreting those results. We’re using what we know about the data, the analysis, the project as a whole and all kinds of preexisting knowledge, opinions and worldviews to say, “ah, if that is the result of this analysis, then that means…”.

This isn’t unique to data science, it is the foundation of all science from…