Hi there! I’m Stijn Debrouwere, a statistician and data scientist for hire. I’ve worked for The Guardian, Fusion and many other news organizations. In 2013, I was a Knight-Mozilla OpenNews fellow. I blog about computer code and the future of journalism. I’m @stdbrouw on Twitter and you can reach me at stijn .
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If you've ever used an arithmetic mean, a Pearson correlation or a standard deviation to describe a dataset, I'm writing this for you. Better numbers exist to summarize location, association and spread: numbers that are easier to interpret and that don't act up with wonky data and outliers.