Month: August 2009

Survival of Innovation

In 1988 Pinnacle Brands broke into the baseball card market. The market…

Editor SDC Editor SDC 4 Min Read

An Interesting Observation

By Ian Ayres, a guest columnist on the New York Time's Freakonomics blog:"In Super…

Steve Bennett Steve Bennett 2 Min Read

Finding, Locating, Discovering

Thanks to Tony Hollingsworth for alerting me to a post by Alex…

Daniel Tunkelang Daniel Tunkelang 6 Min Read

Seven reasons to use R

Biological anthropologist James Holland Jones is asked a simple question by his…

DavidMSmith DavidMSmith 2 Min Read

SIA Recap: Set It & Forget It – Triggered Campaigns

Think of it as auto-pilot for your eMarketing program, Triggered Campaigns play…

SundeepKapur1 SundeepKapur1 4 Min Read

Slow BI and the BIG Method Part 1

A while ago, I blogged about what I call Slow BI. With…

Steve Bennett Steve Bennett 4 Min Read

Means and Proportions with two populations

Statistical inference about means and proportions with two populations seems to be…

romakanta romakanta 7 Min Read

Blogs I Read: Chris Dixon (cdixon.org)

I’ve started reading a few different blogs in the past months, and…

Daniel Tunkelang Daniel Tunkelang 3 Min Read

Free as in Freebase

It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about Freebase, the semantic web…

Daniel Tunkelang Daniel Tunkelang 4 Min Read

Adventures in Data Profiling (Part 5)

In Part 4 of this series: You went totally postal... shifting your…

JimHarris JimHarris 8 Min Read