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I feel like the dataset they've chosen is extremely noisy at the tail, but they've obscured this in their analysis. An 11% increase in Portland should be a lot
by hwbehrens 4y ago
I feel like the dataset they've chosen is extremely noisy at the tail, but they've obscured this in their analysis. An 11% increase in Portland should be a lot more impactful (in absolute terms) than a big decrease in El Centro, which I can imagine could be caused by a single company moving.
I guess it's probably unrealistic to expect P-values in a blog post, though...
- TooKool4This 4y agoAgreed! The list of highest growth and highest decline cities by page view is almost entirely small cities. This is a pointless stat because of course the small cities are going to see the largest change from even the smallest of trends. I’m skeptical of the rest of the analysis if simple things like that are not considered.