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…
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…
And The Verdict Is…Targeted Mobile Delivery!
There’s nothing like the smell of civic responsibility. I didn’t realize that civic responsibility had a “smell” until I was…
Denial of access
I hear a story like the one I heard this week and I want to ask the apparent villain why.…
Google’s Chief Economist Hal Varian Talks Stats 101
In an interview with CNET’s Tom Krazit, Google Chief Economist Hal Varian made a nice argument regarding the relative advantages…
Google’s coding standards for R
For any software application in production and produced by a development team, coding standards are an essential tool for promoting…
Terabytes of trees
I saw a very interesting talk at hosted by the SF Bay ACM last night. Google engineer Josh Herbach talked…
SAP’s Sustainability Dashboards
The SAP’s Sustainability Report web site provides a great example of how business intelligence can help with sustainability reporting and analysis.…
A computer program predicts Viral Tweets
In the previous post we have seen that the author of a Tweet is the most important factor for making…
How Different Groups Spend Their Day – Interactive Graphic -…
How Different Groups Spend Their Day - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com The American Time Use Survey asks thousands of American…