Project Gaydar: A Reminder That Privacy Isn’t Binary
There’s a nice article in the Boston Globe about “Project Gaydar“, a project to predict who is gay based on…
Transparent Text Symposium
One of the unexpected benefits of accepting an invitation to speak at SIGMOD 2009 was an invitation from fellow participant…
Always Be Closing
Originally posted on erp.com. One of my favorite movies is Wall Street. Near the end of the movie, Gordon Gekko…
A coincidence occurred. Film at 11.
BBC News reported yesterday that the Bulgarian lottery is under investigation because the same six numbers were drawn two weeks…
Beating The Placebo Effect: Red Pill or Blue?
Placebo pills routinely beat Big Pharma medications in clinical trials. As more drugs fail to make the cut due to…
Blogs I Read: The Haystack Blog
It’s been quite the week in tech business news, with Adobe acquiring Omniture, Google acquiring reCAPTCHA and being rumored (falsely)…
Do You Need an Extra Brain?
I don’t write too much about new software here. Fact is, In many cases I’m not the early adopter some…
DQ-Tip: “Don’t pass bad data on to the next person…”
Data Quality (DQ) Tips is a new regular segment. Each DQ-Tip is a clear and concise data quality pearl of…
Stop Justifying Data Quality Programs and Do the DQ Work Already!
In a recent discussion with a good friend, I learned that they are in the middle of justifying their work…
The Mythbusters and Statistics
I love the TV show "Mythbusters." If you've never seen the show, it's great. (A new season starts this week…
