Bonus: Automating Associations and Correlations

In this chapter, you'll learn why it's becoming increasingly difficult to do relationship analyses manually and why automation of the whole process is important, and be introduced to a product for just such a task – CorrelViz.

Disclaimer – CorrelViz is our own product and is available exclusively via Chi-Squared Innovations.

What is the Problem?

There is no shortage of large, do-it-all statistics programs that contain all the statistical tests you need to do your associations and correlations (and 10,000+ other statistical tests all rolled up into one huge package).

The problem with these is that you have to run the analyses manually. OK, sure, it's not terribly difficult to run a two-sample t-test or an ANOVA – they're just a few clicks away – but let's have a look at this in the context of the whole dataset.

Let's take a dataset of 100 variables (columns). That&apos...