Event Details

Registrations to date: 38

IN PERSON: A Little Content and a Lot of Holiday Cheer

We have not had a meetup since our July event, which was a lot of fun! Traditionally, our December event is “content-free,” but it’s been so long since we’ve had an event that we’re going to do a little bit of content. Mainly, though, we’re going to simply provide an opportunity for our community to gather for some networking and socializing.

Since the last 22 months has played with everyone’s perception of time, our brief topic is going to be time-related. Tim Wilson from Search Discovery is going to show one of the more intriguing pitfalls of applying basic statistical operations like the mean and correlation to time-series data. Then, he’ll demonstrate one (of many) techniques for more safely working with time-series data: using a first-difference estimator. It’s surprisingly intuitive and powerful!

About Our Speaker

Tim is one of the co-founders of Columbus WAW and has been working with digital data full-time since 2001 in a variety of roles. He is a middle-aged guy in 2021, so he has a podcast. He is happiest when holed up with an analytical challenge that requires him to program something in R, but he also holds sufficiently strong opinions about the appropriate use of data and how data gets visualized that he “gets” to spend much of his time developing slides instead. He’s an analytics curmudgeon, but seems to be entertainingly so when we hand him a microphone, and that’s what we’re doing this month.