Could There Be a Correlation Between Search Engine Queries Getting Longer and Blog Post Titles Getting Longer?
Frederic Lardinois opines: This is an interesting trend, and it could be interpreted in a variety of way. This could…
How to Simply Explain Twitter
“It is part text messaging and part blogging, with the ability to update on your cellphone or computer, but constrained…
Do you have obsessive-compulsive data quality (OCDQ)?
Obsessive-compulsive data quality (OCDQ) affects millions of people worldwide. The most common symptoms of OCDQ are: Obsessively verifying data used…
Underestimating the tails
Collective wisdom about the location of Ground Zero for the credit crisis seems to be coalescing around AIG's Financial Products…
Memo to Steve Ballmer: Just Ask Them!
Dina Bass from Bloomberg reports today that Steve Ballmer is talking smack about Google: “Google does have to be all…
The Down Economy and Data Integration
Vendors, writers and analysts are generating a lot of buzz about the poor economic growth conditions in the world. It’s…
A Proposal Regarding High Tech Immigrants to the US
The topic of H-1B visa's has always been a hot one. In the current economic climate there are plenty of…
How a highly-variable point estimate becomes a headline
The media were jubilant earlier this week that an economic indicator was finally good news. "Wall Street resumes rally following…
US Economic Census Treemap
Now that I’ve got treemaps on the brain, I keep noticing how many things could be better understood using this…
Scandalous Financial Benchmarking?
I just stumbled across an old post of mine, and couldn’t help reposting some of it in the light of…
