Snowstats

Ah...Data analysis. Wouldn't science be nice if all you had to do was collect the data and then let it organize and present itself? Since that's not the case, I'm spending a sunny afternoon sitting in a lab crunching numbers in R. At least there is the payoff at the end of a job completed and knowledge gained. If only there weren't so many outliers and everything fit into nice regression lines; explanations would be so much easier. This is where the art of interpretation comes in, when you need find order in the chaos of numbers. I think I might default to a nihilistic interpretation of my data and just say that there really is no meaning to the universe or anything in it beyond the subjective meaning we give it; there is no truth, only opinions. I wonder how many projects I can get away with that conclusion on before people stop paying attention to anything I say.