Day Job: System Dynamics and Cash Management
Nice writeup by Robin Bloor on a project that I am involved with at the Day Job (tm): So what…
Analysis of a Bad Indicator
I watched a video lecture, as I often do, on data analysis. here's the video: the Hilbert Spectrum. Here are…
The Geography of Telecommunications Marketing
Years ago, when I was helping start up a local phone company and later starting up a local cable company,…
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…
