Remember the classic science fiction film The Matrix? The dark sunglasses, the leather, computer monitors constantly raining streams of integers (inexplicably in base 10 rather than binary or hexadecimal)? And that mind-blowing plot twist when Neo takes the red pill from Morpheus’ outstretched hand? Well to me, there’s one thing even more mind-blowing than the plot of The Matrix: the matrix plot. You know, in Minitab Statistical Software. 

Just as Neo and his band of futuristic rebels were constantly barraged with endless streams of data, it seems like we, too, often face large amounts of data that we must make sense of.

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