Re:How to make fake data look meaningful
by siong1987 on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @03:03PM
(#6770746)
You didn't actually clean up the data that you have tho.
Another flaw of your analysis is that you didn't look at where the founders went to school for their undergraduate/graduate(this probably doesn't matter).
I opened up the CSV and searched for "Urbana"(UIUC, where I went to school for) and counted 28 founders. In fact, some "University of Illinois" should match to UIUC too but I ignored those (for example, ZocDoc CTO).
Re:How to make fake data look meaningful
by minimaxir on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @03:38PM
(#6771009)
I did attempt to clean up the data, just not enough. (I substituted for the abbreviations for 20-25 colleges. In retrospect I should have looked for a mapping online first.)
Another flaw of your analysis is that you didn't look at where the founders went to school for their undergraduate/graduate(this probably doesn't matter).
I opened up the CSV and searched for "Urbana"(UIUC, where I went to school for) and counted 28 founders. In fact, some "University of Illinois" should match to UIUC too but I ignored those (for example, ZocDoc CTO).