Category Archives: Data Analytics
Do Small Towns Provide Better Education? A UK Detective Story
The Mystery I recently came across a fascinating article with dataset from the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) asking: Why do children in smaller towns do better academically than those in larger towns? The data seemed clear: small towns consistently outperform large towns on education metrics. The ONS article explored various factors—coastal location, regional […]
Causal AI for Business: The Quiet Revolution Changing How Companies Think
Correlation does not equal causation… Correlation does not equal causation… Correlation does not equal causation… Correlation does not equal causation… Correlation does not equal causation… You’ve probably heard this mantra in a statistics class—or seen it scrawled across a whiteboard somewhere. It’s a core principle of data science: just because two variables move together doesn’t […]
Hands-On with Microsoft Copilot: What Works (and What Doesn’t) in Business Analytics
This post documents my hands-on experience testing Microsoft Copilot for data analysis as part of my Masters in Business Analytics coursework. For more thoughts on human-AI collaboration in analytics, see my previous post: “The Human Layer: What AI Can’t Replace in Data Analytics.” Last week, while manually creating scatter plots and correlation matrices in Excel, […]
The Human Layer: What AI Can’t Replace in Data Analytics
This post is a reflection on the data analytics projects I’ve been involved in, as well as my Masters in Business Analytics. You can view the published projects in my portfolio at: www.georgelindley.com/portfolio. In an era where ChatGPT can generate charts and Claude can write code, many wonder: do we still need human data analysts? […]