also believe that context plays an important role
in how to think with data: “statistics requires a different kind of thinking, because
data are just not numbers, they are numbers with a context.” They emphasize that
the data “literature” must be known in order to make sense of data distributions.
When looking for patterns, data analysts must ultimately decide “whether the
patterns have meaning and whether they have any value”; this will depend on “how
the threads of those patterns interweave with the complementary threads of the story
line,” since the “context provides meaning”