Day: March 20, 2009

Do you have obsessive-compulsive data quality (OCDQ)?

Obsessive-compulsive data quality (OCDQ) affects millions of people worldwide. The most common…

JimHarris JimHarris 5 Min Read

Underestimating the tails

Collective wisdom about the location of Ground Zero for the credit crisis…

DavidMSmith DavidMSmith 3 Min Read

Memo to Steve Ballmer: Just Ask Them!

Dina Bass from Bloomberg reports today that Steve Ballmer is talking smack…

Daniel Tunkelang Daniel Tunkelang 4 Min Read

The Down Economy and Data Integration

Vendors, writers and analysts are generating a lot of buzz about the…

SteveSarsfield SteveSarsfield 4 Min Read

A Proposal Regarding High Tech Immigrants to the US

The topic of H-1B visa's has always been a hot one.  In…

BobGourley BobGourley 3 Min Read

How a highly-variable point estimate becomes a headline

The media were jubilant earlier this week that an economic indicator was…

DavidMSmith DavidMSmith 1 Min Read

US Economic Census Treemap

Now that I’ve got treemaps on the brain, I keep noticing how…

JuiceAnalytics JuiceAnalytics 4 Min Read

Scandalous Financial Benchmarking?

I just stumbled across an old post of mine, and couldn’t help…

Timo Elliott Timo Elliott 2 Min Read

Headup uses a proprietary semantic engine that cross references…

Headup uses a proprietary semantic engine that cross references multiple online sources…

JackMason JackMason 1 Min Read

R, March Madness, and the Statistics of Basketball

Back in February, Mark Cuban announced on his blog that the Dallas…

DavidMSmith DavidMSmith 2 Min Read