What is something you just learned, that you should have known for a while?

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That you can think of an average as the center of mass of a dataset. Similarly, that you can think of a standard deviation as the center of mass of the distances between each point and the average.

Violin plots make this easy to visualize

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I'm looking forward to feeling bad when I listen to this on my next commute because there's no way I'm watching a 42 minute video on violin plots for my Saturday night 😂

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