Afterthought: The third age of math
I'm fascinated by a book I picked up at the library yesterday. It's called Afterthought: The Computer Challenge to Human…
Who Remembers Saying “This is where we came in”?
I suspect only a small number of those reading this will recognize the phrase in this blog’s title, “This is…
The Circle of Quality
Explaining why data quality is so vitally important to an organization's success that it needs to be viewed as a…
What to keep in our heads?
Here's what I posted last week on Smart Data Collective. I'll start with what sounds like a silly question: Which…
Here are 6 of 17 Best Practices
A group of marketers got together last week to chat about best practices in email marketing. The discussion was an…
It’s not East Coast vs West Coast, it’s about making more places like the Valley
I’ve written a few times about what seems to be an exploding tech scene in NYC. This is sometimes interpreted…
Moving beyond the industrial society
Noted psychiatrist R. D. Laing said "we live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that…
Object types in R: The fundamentals
If you're a self-taught R programmer, you've probably grappled with the different kinds of objects you can use in the language. When…
Mining Social Media
The finest example of social media mining that I have found to-date is the superb site Please Robe Me. In…
10 Market Research Challenges
Data Privacy on the Web? As part of the recent BAQMaR Conference in Ghent Belgium, 10 upcoming challenges to the…
