Author: nytm
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Please no more Vodka
Please please please stop it with the Vodka… Vodka has no taste. Some say it’s why it’s the better alcohol… Rubbing alcohol also has no flavor… Good luck! Vodka is clean. Some say that’s why it’s the better alcohol… Ok… then why are so many marketers not mostly (if not only) promoting and creating fruit…
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More is less… too much of a good thing…
Infographics are everywhere… At first we had some great examples of infographics. Graphics that communicated information (message, question, data) to an audience. What distinguished some of the leading infographics was their ability to provide a tremendous amount of insights and inspire thinking. One of the most talked about and best examples of infographics was Charles…
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What’s interesting about “Big Data”
Recently there’s been a lot of writing about “Big Data”. Many organizations and consultancies have begun to speak, write, and offer view points on big data. To me, big data is nothing more than the marketing of analytics that has been going in many organization for severals years/decades. For example, banking, health care, pharma, insurance,…
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Backlash on Quantitative Analytics
Hi folks! Ah June… it’s getting warmer, and Spring is wrapping up. Looking forward to some summer vacation. I wanted to take a second to pause and reflect on a conversation that I had recently. By all accounts, I’m a data nerd, an analytics nerd, a map nerd, and a geek too. But at the…
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Cartograms are evil!
Cartograms are evil… I recently engaged in a pretty heated debate with a senior researcher at my company about the merits and drawbacks of various data visualization techniques. This particular person used mapping as a great example of visualization techniques, unfortunately started to focus his attention on cartograms (insert image here) as the best example…