Three old jokes
Modern analytics described in three old jokes.
The drunk under the lamppost
A man is on his hands and knees, looking for something under a lamppost and obviously not finding it. The neighborhood policeman asks what he is doing.
“I’m looking for my keys.”
“Did you lose them around here?”
“Not exactly; I think they fell out of my pocket down the street a bit.”
“Then why aren’t you looking for them down the street?”
“The light is better over here.”
But seriously
Some people use statistics the way a drunk uses a lamppost — more for support than for illumination.
Seek and …
A family that’s looking to start organic gardening has a large pile of manure dumped into their backyard. Their daughter grabs a shovel and digs in excitedly, shouting:
“Look at all this … stuff! There must be a pony in here somewhere!!”
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Good, but I only count two – or is that one of the jokes?
As Dmitri Ryaboy once told me, the two hardest problems in computer science are naming, caching, and off-by-one …
… but actually there are three there; one is just substantially shorter than the other two.
Quick, Easy, Cheap. Pick any two.
You can add one more in this row. That’s analytics based on BIG data 🙂
Not so old, Thiru. First time I heard that one was as per the very end of http://www.dbms2.com/2011/09/11/big-data-has-jumped-the-shark/