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Hunt for Area 51 #dashboardweek

This post was originally published on The Data School blog between 2018 and July 2025, before our program was renamed to MIP’s Analytics Career Accelerator. References throughout this article to “The Data School” or “DS” all refer to what is now MIP’s Analytics Career Accelerator. The program, its people, and its commitment to launching outstanding analytics careers remain the same – just under a new name.

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Visual analysis is a powerful tool to detect anomalies and outliers in data, as long as you give the user the right tools to look with.

On our second day of the #dashboardweek, I tried to find an answer to the question “are there aliens among us or all that is just our imagination” by looking for anomalies in UFO reports. I thought of finding a site of an interstellar spaceport or something like it. so far I didn’t find a lot of unexplained behaviour out there: if people see more “objects”, it is just because there are more people out there. But maybe you will be luckier!

Check for extraterrestrials here:

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