{"id":12403,"date":"2014-02-26T22:02:02","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T21:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/?p=6477"},"modified":"2014-02-26T22:02:02","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T21:02:02","slug":"analytics-cartoon-caption-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/analytics-cartoon-caption-contest.html","title":{"rendered":"Analytics Cartoon Caption Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last weekend I created the cartoon above but realized that the caption I had planned wasn\u2019t particularly funny.\u00a0 So instead I posted<\/a> it to twitter and proposed a caption competition. The result was a wonderful outpouring of analytic creativity, and I thank everyone who took part (links below\u2013follow them on Twitter!).<\/p>\n

Humor is in the eye of the beholder, but I hereby declare the results of the competition below (Don\u2019t like my choices? Or think you can do better? Comment below!)<\/p>\n

The Winners<\/h3>\n

#1.<\/span> \"\"
\nDJ Adams<\/strong> @qmacro<\/b><\/a>\u00a0:\u00a0“I asked the finance department for a breakdown of the figures and look what they gave me” Link<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

#2.<\/span> \"\"
\nJosh Greenbaum<\/strong> @josheac<\/b><\/a>:\u00a0“Okay, who dropped the pi and didn’t clean up?” Link<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

#3.<\/span> \"\"
\nFrank Scavo<\/strong> @fscavo<\/b><\/a>:\u00a0“This is not what I meant when I asked for a data dump!” Link<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n

Special prize for creative quantity<\/span><\/h3>\n

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\nDave Kellogg<\/strong> @Kellblog<\/b> <\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe answer is clearly 100,000 but we’re not sure if it’s dollars, yen, or bitcoins\u201d Link<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe answer’s right there in the numbers\u201d Link<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cNow that we have in-memory technology cubes are out and triangles in\u201d Link<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the little data pile produced by Hadoop extracting from the big data\u201d Link<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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Special prize for snark \"Smile\"<\/h3>\n

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\nDonald MacCormick @Donaldmac<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

“What do you mean I could sort it out myself with Lumira? Do you job properly and deliver some real end-user BI” Link<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Additional entries<\/span><\/p>\n

Decisions, decisions\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n