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Re:Your average revenue per customer is meaningless by daemonk on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @04:45PM (#7511532)
Anscombe's quartet is relevant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe's_quartet
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Re:Your average revenue per customer is meaningless by raviparikh on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @05:00PM (#7511637)
Absolutely – one of my favorite examples about the importance of visualization, and why summary statistics often don't do a great job of summarizing a distribution.
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