You’ve Got the Information But What Does It Mean? Welcome to “From Data to Action”

Learn to tune out the noise and focus on the signal.

by

Andrew O’Connell

and

Walter Frick

by

Andrew O’Connell

and

Walter Frick

November 19, 2013

“The numbers don’t lie.”

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Andrew O’Connell, an editor with the Harvard Business Review Group, is the author of Stats and Curiosities from Harvard Business Review.
Walter Frick is a contributing editor at Harvard Business Review, where he was formerly a senior editor and deputy editor of HBR.org. He is the founder of Nonrival, a newsletter where readers make crowdsourced predictions about economics and business. He has been an executive editor at Quartz as well as a Knight Visiting Fellow at Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism and an Assembly Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. He has also written for The Atlantic, MIT Technology Review, The Boston Globe, and the BBC, among other publications.

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You’ve Got the Information But What Does It Mean? Welcome to “From Data to Action”

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