Because It’s the Weekend: Cube-Solving Lego Robot
The world record for a human solving a Rubik's cube is 5.66 seconds. This robot, made from Lego Mindstorms and…
Big Data – Big Change or Big Hype?
In the Information part of Information Technology, Big Data is the Big Hit of 2011. It's also a wonderful phrase…
Analysts As Rock Stars? Don’t Be A One Hit Wonder!
What a change a few decades makes! When first starting my career as an analyst, I had no illusions about…
Big Data: Good or Evil?
An article in the New York Times stokes fears of Big Data: Social scientists are trying to mine the vast…
A New Breed of Analysts…
A few days ago, I wrote about the analyst function being dead, which spurred conversations about the emergence of a…
Big Data? Big Deal.
Recently, a new beast has begun to terrorize the market research industry. Big Data. Say it with a booming echoey…
Blasphemy? Quantitative Approaches Don’t Always Work Best
Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates hedge fund, Pure Alpha II, is up 25% in year that hasn’t been kind to competitors.…
Math Might Be Scary But It Isn’t New
In the good ol’ days, after the invention of numbers, we did everything by hand – by paper, pen, and…
The Analytics of Terrorism
I’m a big believer in analyzing data in order to make sensible decisions. On the tenth anniversary of 9/11,…
Text Analytics News Interviews
Twelve Social Media Tips for Analytics Professionals Text Analytics News just published an interview with myself and three analytics professionals…
