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Arrived in Amsterdam yesterday evening, quick and uneventful flight. Read an interesting book by Ian Steward professor of maths at Warwick University on the flight, picked up a few interesting things in the book.

First one was called 'Most Likely Digit' - goes like this, if you look at a list of numerical data, and count how often a given digit turns up in the first digit in each entry, which digit is the most likely?

A quick Tableau worksheet in the departure lounge at Terminal 5 gives us the answer, it seems it's number 1? but why?

Second interesting thing was a joke ;

A biologist, a statistician and a mathematician are sitting outside a cafe watching the world go by. A man and a woman enter a building across the road. Ten minutes later, they come out accompanied by a child.

'They've reproduced' says the biologist
'No,' says the statistician, 'its an observational error'. On average 2.5 went each way.
'No, no, no' says the mathematician. 'It's perfectly obvious. If someone now goes into the building the building will be empty.'

Really liked this one.

Through registration, booked my technical walk through at 3pm today to get feedback from Tableau folks on my presentation ahead of the scheduled session on Wednesday.

Heading to attend the designing, building and maintaining dashboards workshop. Seems the conference is around 170 folks, more than a factor of ten smaller than the US version which is around 2000 this coming year.