For this week’s Thursday Thought we’re keeping things simple. VERY simple… but more importantly fun!
Question:
What’s your favorite data joke?
Here are a few that might create a chuckle:
- There are two kinds of data scientists: 1) Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
- In data science, 80 percent of time spent is preparing data, 20 percent of time is spent complaining about the need to prepare data.
- There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
- Your mama is so mean, she has no standard deviation.
- A physicist, a mathematician, and a statistician go hunting. They spot a deer and take aim. The physicists shoots first and misses 10 meters to the right. The mathematician shoots next and misses 10 meters to the left. The statistician then throws down his gun and proclaims, "we got it!"
I enjoyed the binary and mean (that one was at inspire16) for a long time. The others were in a blog post that I found. There are plenty of Dilbert cartoons to choose from. Of course, if you're a star trek fan there are even more data jokes to choose from.
Happy IPO day!
Mark
Thanks for sharing @MattD and MarqueeCrew! Since @MarqueeCrew opened the door to Star Trek jokes... I figured I'd share one that made me laugh.
Found this shirt recently and loved it:
one for the spatial analytics folk among us....
Well, I would walk 500 miles, and I would walk 500 more...
-If at first you don’t succeed; call it version 1.0.
-A company manager is flying across the desert in a hot air balloon when he realizes he is lost. He calls down to a man riding a camel below him and asks where he is.The man replies, “You’re 42 degrees and 12 minutes, 21.2 seconds north, 122 degrees, 10 minutes west, 212 meters above sea level, heading due east by north east.”“Thanks,” replies the balloonist. “By the way, are you a data analyst?”“Yes,” replies the man, “how did you know?”“Everything you told me was totally accurate, you gave me way more information than I needed and I still have no idea what I need to do.”“I’m sorry,” replied the camel-riding analyst. “By the way, are you a company manager?”“Yes,” said the balloonist, “how did you know?”“Well,” replied the analyst, “You’ve got no idea where you are, no idea what direction you’re heading in, you got yourself into this fix by blowing a load of hot air, and now you expect me to get you out of it.”
I almost feel like these happen at least once a week. Both were taken from online.
This definitely crosses my mind from time to time (found online):
Any number of XKCD comics would work, too:
https://xkcd.com/605/
There are only two types of people in the world, those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
Lol
One day there was a fire in a wastebasket in the office of the Dean of Sciences. In rushed a physicist, a chemist, and a statistician. The physicist immediately starts to work on how much energy would have to be removed from the fire to stop the combustion.
The chemist works on which reagent would have to be added to the fire to prevent oxidation. While they are doing this, the statistician is setting fires to all the other wastebaskets in the office.
“What are you doing?” the others demand. The statistician replies, “Well, to solve the problem, you obviously need a larger sample size.”
A statistics major was completely hung over the day of his final exam. It was a true/false test, so he decided to flip a coin for the answers. The statistics professor watched the student the entire two hours as he was flipping the coin … writing the answer … flipping the coin … writing the answer.
At the end of the two hours, everyone else had left the final except for the one student. The professor walks up to his desk and interrupts the student, saying, “Listen, I have seen that you did not study for this statistics test, you didn’t even open the exam. If you are just flipping a coin for your answer, what is taking you so long?” The student replies bitterly (as he is still flipping the coin), “Shhh! I am checking my answers!
Found this thread just today and couldn't stop myself from sharing this interesting joke!!! Have a good laugh
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The Powers-That-Be know the answers. Everyone else must bring data.
What does a baby computer call its father?
Data.
@jveingrad lol
Besides the idea of "having a pie chart of my favorite bars and a bar chart of my favorite pies" (from how I met your mother) I always liked this one is about how to make pie charts work ... (by turning them to bar charts of course)
(from our friends at Darkhorse Analytics - https://www.darkhorseanalytics.com/blog/salvaging-the-pie)
What new jokes can we add to this post?
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For this week’s Thursday Thought we’re keeping things simple. VERY simple… but more importantly fun!
