An Interesting Observation
By Ian Ayres, a guest columnist on the New York Time's Freakonomics blog:"In Super Crunchers, I conjectured that predictive analytics was going…
Finding, Locating, Discovering
Thanks to Tony Hollingsworth for alerting me to a post by Alex Campbell entitled “Stark realisation: I no longer depend…
Seven reasons to use R
Biological anthropologist James Holland Jones is asked a simple question by his professor colleagues at Stanford: Why use R? Of…
SIA Recap: Set It & Forget It – Triggered Campaigns
Think of it as auto-pilot for your eMarketing program, Triggered Campaigns play a valuable role in your overall messaging strategy.…
Slow BI and the BIG Method Part 1
A while ago, I blogged about what I call Slow BI. With this I am advocating that we take time…
Means and Proportions with two populations
Statistical inference about means and proportions with two populations seems to be one of the most commonly used applications in…
Blogs I Read: Chris Dixon (cdixon.org)
I’ve started reading a few different blogs in the past months, and one that I particularly like is Chris Dixon’s,…
Free as in Freebase
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about Freebase, the semantic web database maintained by Metaweb. But I recently had…
Adventures in Data Profiling (Part 5)
In Part 4 of this series: You went totally postal... shifting your focus to postal address by first analyzing the…
Understanding the Basics of Google Analytics
If I could recommend one skill to business owners with a website it would be a solid understanding of their…
