Last week I was being interviewed by a journalist about Business Analytics amongst other things. I found myself speaking about the perils faced in extrapolation that are significantly less scary when merely interpolating.
Serendipity had led to the following cartoon appearing on the web-site of that doyen of scientific humour Randall Munroe, namely xkcd.com.
A lesson for us all – © xkcd.com
I’m sure this drawing must have appeared on some other BI blogs, but what the hell, it merits posting again in my opinion.
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Posted in business, business analytics, business intelligence, technology Tagged: xkcd.com 
Last week I was being interviewed by a journalist about Business Analytics amongst other things. I found myself speaking about the perils faced in extrapolation that are significantly less scary when merely interpolating.
Serendipity had led to the following cartoon appearing on the web-site of that doyen of scientific humour Randall Munroe, namely xkcd.com.
A lesson for us all – © xkcd.com
I’m sure this drawing must have appeared on some other BI blogs, but what the hell, it merits posting again in my opinion.
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Posted in business, business analytics, business intelligence, technology Tagged: xkcd.com