Analysis of a Bad Indicator
I watched a video lecture, as I often do, on data analysis. here's the video: the Hilbert Spectrum. Here are…
Because it’s Friday: United States of Obesity
Reader BR pointed me to a, er, unique representation of the proportion of the proportion of the population in each…
Social Sports
Pre-season games are in full swing, college teams are practicing regularly… but a recent policy may throw a flag on…
Hailing Frequencies Open
“This is Captain James E. Harris of the Data Quality Starship Collaboration...” Clearly, I am a Star Trek nerd –…
The Geography of Telecommunications Marketing
Years ago, when I was helping start up a local phone company and later starting up a local cable company,…
Trends in Logo Design: Understanding the Evolutionary Nature of Logos and Web 2.0
The Influence of the Internet on Logo Development There are logos that are iconic … logos that stand the test…
The Impact of Real Time Search
The social web is fundamentally about enabling conversations at scale. Those conversations are the building blocks of the new social…
Leadership Lessons in Data Quality – Part 2
In my last blog (Leadership Lessons in Data Quality - Part 1) I talked about some useful techniques that I…
We Need Dustin Hoffman Again – Now to hear “Statistics” not “Plastics”
In an August 6, 2009 New York Times (NYT) article For Today’s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics I am reminded…
Prediction Is Hard, Especially About The Future
That Niels Bohr certainly knew what he was talking about! But that hasn’t discouraged folks in any number of industries…
