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Re:What Happens When Baseball-Stats Nerds Run a Pro Team by mathattack on Monday April 25, 2016 @07:22PM (#11568192)
I like that this captures something very important about Data Science. The data may give the truth, but it's the story that makes people change. The story taps our emotions, which cause us to change behavior faster than hard data.

The chief analyst at a prior employer once commented that he liked people "with degrees that suggest storytelling" in addition to their math/science/engineering pedigrees.

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Re:What Happens When Baseball-Stats Nerds Run a Pro Team by allisthemoist on Monday April 25, 2016 @10:25PM (#11569013)
Because what is a story really but condensed data?
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Re:What Happens When Baseball-Stats Nerds Run a Pro Team by rpgmaker on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @12:09AM (#11569364)
A story can have a lot of noise too.
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Re:What Happens When Baseball-Stats Nerds Run a Pro Team by RobertoG on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @06:24AM (#11570678)
not the good ones
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Re:What Happens When Baseball-Stats Nerds Run a Pro Team by mathattack on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @12:16PM (#11573125)
The story taps emotions, and impacts decisions better than just raw data. This is why politicians try to attach names and faces to policies. Good leaders use the data to inform the decisions, but stories to explain them.
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