When Distributions Go Bad

Recently I was working with an organization, building estimation models (rather than classification). They were interested in using linear regression, so I dutifully looked at the distribution, as shown to the left (all pictures were generated by Clementine, and I also scaled the distribution to protect the data even more, but didn’t change the shape of the data). There were approximately

Recently I was working with an organization, building estimation models (rather than classification). They were interested in using linear regression, so I dutifully looked at the distribution, as shown to the left (all pictures were generated by Clementine, and I also scaled the distribution to protect the data even more, but didn’t change the shape of the data). There were approximately