Gavin Chait News Today

The scientific research process should be as well organised and smooth as customer service in a high-end restaurant.  That’s the view of Gavin Chait, Whythawk's lead consultant and data scientist. However, in practice, researchers often end up working with messy spreadsheets that require them to spend hours or even days manually cleaning the data.

Three years ago the S&R staff took the Political Compass test, an interesting survey that seeks to get past our simplistic either/or sense of American political life. Red or Blue? Liberal or Conservative? Left or Right? Metro or Retro? Coastal or Flyover? With us or Agin' Us? And so on. While their approach is hardly…

It’s time for the staff at S&R to award our 5th Annual Donald J. Trump Asshole of the Year. This is never an easy process because the competition is so intense. So many people devoting so much effort to destroying the lives of so many millions of innocents – the scale of our world’s assholery…

On Earth Day (which was Sunday – keep up) the inchoately titled Free Market America … er, foundation, released a video entitled, “If I wanted America to fail” in which they tackle the knotty subject of climate change and carbon pricing through the medium of a patronising preppie grossly oversimplifying a complex problem. No, please, go ahead and watch: This gave me an idea. I gathered the rabble who comprise the Scroguery and suggested we respond. I assumed we’d all tackle the points...