How to Consume Big Data

Over at the McGraw-Hill blog, I wrote about how to consume Big Data (link), which is the core theme of my new book. In that piece, I highlight two recent instances in which bloggers demonstrated numbersense in vetting other people's data analyses. (Since the McGraw-Hill link is not working as I'm writing this, I placed a copy of the post here in case you need it.) Below is a detailed dissection of Zoë Harcombe's work. *** Eating red meat makes us die sooner! Zoë Harcombe didn’t think so. In March, 2013, nutritional epidemiologists from Harvard University circulated new research linking...