Saturday notes: The Frick and curve balls
Vermeer's 'Officer and Laughing Girl' Yesterday, after lunch in Midtown, I walked up to the Frick Collection. It's a spectacular…
Making publication-ready tables with xtable
When you use R at the command-line, the textual output is limited by the medium: one monospaced font, with no…
Social Networking, Downtime, Speaking, and Farg
As an independent technology consultant, writer and now cartoon character, my schedule affords me more flexibility than most people. On…
Bing Maps Continues To Innovate
Take a moment to check out this video which shows some of the content that Blaise presented at TED today.…
Analytics at Work
Hot off the presses jumps Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results, the new book by Thomas Davenport, Jeanne G.…
First Look – Quantivo
I got a briefing from Quantivo recently. This is a company focused on behavioral analytics – uncovering patterns within the…
Targeting readers who hate my book
Here's someone named R. Hunt reviewing my book on Amazon. This book was not only boring, I also didn't learn…
Once Again: Unsubscribe Best Practices
Now that the holiday blitz has passed and email frequency has returned to some normalcy, eMarketers everywhere are sorting through…
Maybe you’re just not that into your data?
This Sunday is February 14—Valentine's Day—the annual celebration of enduring romance, where true love is publicly judged according to your…
Decision points
My friend Jerome had a post this week on finding decision points – the spots in a business process where…