If you have two sets of researchers who are telling you contradictory things,

and they have their own data sets to support it; how do you tell which one is

believable and which one is junk. In Numbersense,

what I try to do is to give people, as you say, a framework to start thinking

about how you would interpret all these things out there.

…says Kaiser Fung, author of a new book, Numbersense a

previous book, Numbers

Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on

Everything You Do and the popular blog, Junk Charts. Kaiser Fung is a

professional statistician with over a decade of experience applying statistical

methods to marketing and advertising businesses. He holds an MBA from Harvard

Business School, in addition to degrees from Princeton and Cambridge

Universities. He is Vice President of Business Intelligence and Analytics at

Vimeo, a high-quality video hosting platform for creative people. He previously

worked at Sirius XM Radio, American Express, [X+1], Exodus Communications, and

Sonus Networks. He is also an adjunct professor at New York University teaching

practical statistics.

This is the first of two podcasts with Kaiser. The second one will post next

week.