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…
Google Analytics Achilles Heel
For the casual user, Google Analytics seems like analytics manna and at free it's hard to complain too much.However, for…
Design for Information
All to often reports are designed to provide data, not information. There are charts and tables with little intrepretation, or…
Adventures in Data Profiling (Part 1)
In my popular post Getting Your Data Freq On, I explained that understanding your data is essential to using it…
VectorWise
I was fortunate enough to speak with Marcin Zukowski earlier about VectorWise. If you missed it, VectorWise came out of…
