Another week, another confident beginning…
Week 14‘s challenge was to create a Pareto chart, and use this to determine whether or not UK exports hold to the Parerto Principle. I like the simplicity of the outcome of this one, and I’ve some thoughts on where I’ll employ similar concepts.
My third #WorkoutWednesday ever, yet the 13th of 2017, gave me such excitement at first glance – I was sure I could nail this one in an hour’s time. The author’s comment “[t]his shouldn’t be too terribly challenging” boosted the confidence. It still knocked me around a bit.
The full details of the challenge are at vizwiz.com, the short of Benford’s law is that the distribution of the first digits of real-world numbers are not evenly distributed. Meaning, the numbers 1-9 are not represented equally as the leading digit in a number. Reading it, processing it, it was a quick “well, of course!” Identification numbers, account numbers, etc – you start with 1 and count up!
