Chapter 8 Quantitative Insights

Looking at trends * Increasing/Decreasing * Curvature * Parabolas * Exponential * log and horizontal asmptot. * Sigmoid shapes!

• Smoothing
  • Introduce the sliding window smoother
  • Best fit line (parabola, whatever) is the curve of that type that minimizes SSE.
• Standardization - Rates vs Counts