Analyses

The analyzed centaur head from the Parthenon temple, National Museum of Denmark. Credit: John Lee, National Museum of DenmarkFor almost 200 years, archaeologists have been puzzled by a mysterious brown stain on the ancient Greek Parthenon temple in Greece. Now, researchers from SDU have conducted new scientific analyses, and their verdict is clear: The mystery remains.At the National Museum in Copenhagen, there is a marble head that was once part of the ancient Greek Parthenon temple on the Acropolis in Athens. The head…

The analyzed centaur head from Parthenon temple, National Museum of Denmark. Credit: John Lee, National Museum of Denmark At the National Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, there is a marble head that was once part of the ancient Greek Parthenon temple on the Acropolis in Athens. The head originally belonged to a centaur figure and was part of a scene depicting the Greek mythological Lapiths' battle against the centaurs (mythical…

In 3 words: timeliness, methodology, and digestibilityA couple of weeks ago, I wrote about building systems to generate more quality insights. I presented how you could increase the output of your team by working on areas such as processes, tools, culture, etc., but I never defined what I meant by “quality” — so this week, we’ll do a deep-dive into this concept.Usually when someone talks about quality in regards to a data study — we immediately jump to “making sure the data analysis is sound and the results are reliable”.…

How to land impactful product changes as an analystContinue reading on Towards Data Science » How to land impactful product changes as an analystContinue reading on Towards Data Science » FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the…

Destruction in the city of Antakya. Credit: Kristina Karas On February 6, 2023, the devastating magnitude MW 7.8 Kahramanmaraş earthquake in South East Türkiye ruptured multiple fault segments of the "East Anatolian Fault Zone' separating the Anatolian and Arabian tectonic plates. This earthquake and its aftershock sequence was…

Obsidian artifacts found in 2022 in Gird-i Dasht (Soran district, Kurdistan Autonomous Region, Iraq). The raw material was once extracted several hundred kilometers from the site in eastern Anatolia. This connection is like a trace of human relations. The more such relationships can be studied using raw materials, the more precisely prehistoric networks can be analyzed. Credit: Tim Kerig Publishing in the international journal…

Why we should move to a world where analyses are the default first stepIt’s been nearly 2 years since Seth Rosen’s trashboard tweet, and yet the trashboard epidemic is still quite real. We still encounter companies that are curiously happy with having thousands of dashboards, their analysts left to spelunk deep caverns of ad hoc requests with naught but an IDE.There are good intentions all around, of course — ad hoc work can be painful, and an automated solution sounds appealing. What’s more, dashboarding is a safe bet —…

Emae Island in Central Vanuatu. Credit: Aymeric Hermann Polynesian peoples are renowned for their advanced sailing technology and for reaching the most remote islands on the planet centuries before the Europeans reached the Americas. Through swift eastward migrations that are now well covered by archaeological research, Polynesian societies settled virtually every island from Samoa and Tonga to Rapa Nui/Easter Island in the…

Shortcomings of current metagenomic analyses. Credit: Serrano-Antón et al., CC-BY 4.0Research study of simulated microbial communities shows analyses are flawed by incomplete <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>DNA</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule composed of two long strands of nucleotides that coil around each other to form a double helix. It is the hereditary material in…