Spurring Growth in the UK Economy with Data Analysis
At a time when the UK is engulfed in Olympics excitement, it’s easy to overlook other items on the news…
Step Into the Smarter Planet Time Machine! For a little Friday…
Step Into the Smarter Planet Time Machine!For a little Friday Fun, try one of these three settings: Step Into the…
Test, Learn, Adapt: Using Analytics to Improve Public Policy
Ben Goldacre of Bad Science fame has co-written a UK Cabinet Office paper on how to improve government policy through…
The Environmental Performance Index, Visualized with R
The Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks countries on performance indicators for environmental public health and ecosystem vitality. Yale University hosts…
Cross Platform Vulnerabilities Aiding Attackers: Big data analytics are key for security practices and more.
Micro Microsoft’s Security team examined the problems with cross-platform vulnerabilitiesISF urges business to use Big Data Analytics for security purposes…
Guns, States, and Death (Illustrated Comments on Aurora)
Surfing the web soon after the July 19th massacre in Colorado yielded two geovisualizations that touched, in part or in…
Tweets Per Day Analysis
This is another awesome tool “Twitter Venn” from Jeff Clerk. This is another awesome tool “Twitter Venn” from Jeff…
Analytics Blogger – Journalist or Personal Diary?
There are several bloggers like me who write about the topics of analytics and enterprise risk and performance management (ERM…
Ya Can’t See the Forest Through the Trees
I was talking with a doctor on the train the other day who was complaining about the current state of…
A Prediction for the Olympic Men’s 100m Sprint
R user Markus Gesmann used the gold-winning times from the Olympic Men's 100m sprint since 1990 as the basis of the…
