2011 Census: Comparing Apples and Oranges
Anyone following Canadian news could hardly have missed the release of the results from the 2011 national census by Statistics Canada this…
Protecting Public Data
Public data, the data that government makes available to the public, is at risk. Wait a minute, what about all…
Ending the American Community Survey: Privacy is Not the Issue – by Virginia Carlson
How do we as a nation know who we are, what areas are prospering, who is in trouble, where we…
5 Rules for Better Sales Analytics
Sales performance isn’t just about sales numbers and sales activities. Sure, trends in sales success are deeply tied to sales…
Open Data: What’s It Hiding?
Let’s get this straight – I’m all for open data. Yet the fanfare about open data is taking up so…
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…
Data Visualization’s Final Frontier
Back story Back story35 years ago a mathematics theorist-teacher named Al Inselberg was thinking, "enough of placing data variables on…
The Big Question In Big Data Is…What’s The Question?
All The Current Talk Of Big Data Technology Misses The Point The hype around big data has crescendoed to the…
Visualizing Data Correlation Using an XY Chart
The XY chart is great for visualizing relationships between numerical data and finding correlations. Data can be presented as a…
The Role of Statistics in the Higgs Boson Discovery
News is starting to leak that the Large Hadron Collider may have accomplished its primary mission of confirming the existence…
