• Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Thursday, February 22, 2018 9:19 AM

    xsevensinzx - Thursday, February 22, 2018 6:22 AM

    In my case, when I do things, I often can code it, but have no freaking clue what just happened when I'm done. I likely could not fully explain what just happen outside of providing the code and saying this was the output. I would fail any attempt to explain the data process to the data owners.

    That's disconcerting. I'd hope that we would have better tools to help us debug or disassemble the reasoning for some output score.

    We do. I can run all different types of checks on the results and so forth in terms of measuring errors as I'm sure you know as you've been playing with R. But these are not the only things you can go on with explaining the output. This is where the math and statistics comes into play much like it does for students having to show their work.