Birthday Probabilities: Heat Map vs. R
Last week, Joe Rickert used R and four years of US Census data to create an image plot of the…
Top Financial Risks of Doing Business in the Cloud
Cloud computing definitely has upside as adopters can speed delivery of analytics, gain flexibility in deployments and costs, and transfer…
Hackers and Honeypots: Getting Things Done
It’s always been fashionable in the cybersecurity industry to throw up our hands and call cyber crime an intractable problem. We don’t…
The Experience Economy
Before World War 2, the middle-class in the developed world struggled to afford basic needs. In the post-war boom, standards…
More Questioning Minds Needed (And Don’t Forget the Analytics)
Business schools are often criticized for teaching aspiring executives what to think, rather than how to think. That’s why some…
More or Less? Monetization Based on Facebook’s Business Model
Startups usually succeed because of a single major product or business innovation. Google is unusual in that they succeeded because…
Nigel Turner: “It’s all about the data. Or Is it?”
By Nigel Turner, Vice President, Information Management Strategy, Harte-Hanks Trillium SoftwareI, along with several Trillium Software colleagues and around 250…
Really Simple Surveys: Talk Doesn’t Cook Rice… #MRX
Welcome to Really Simple Surveys (RSS), the younger sibling of Really Simple Statistics. There are lots of places online where…
Fight Back Against Black Swan Fatigue
In today’s lean, just-in-time, and over optimized world, it’s not uncommon for executives roll their eyes when the term “Black…
