Category: Analytics
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2014-06B: From Around The Web: 5 Next Steps For Data Visualization | Blog
Not sure this is new news (see article at bottom of this post), but good to see it being articulated. I would say the trends outlined below are already happening. There is, however still a gap between the three dimensions of data visualization production: The tools with many templates (Excel/Tableau) are not very creative, The…
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2014-06A: From Around The Web: The backlash against big data, continued – O’Reilly Radar
A good articulation of the issue with “big data”. Data is here (and has been for a while), but we have to be careful about the false assumption of what more data can do. One thing that Mike tangentially touches on, but is worth highlighting is that we have to continue to be careful to…
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2013-09: Behavior vs. Intention
I had an interesting conversation the other day. It stemmed from the name of this networking lunch group that I am part of. It’s called Burgers & Granola (B&G). The name of the group originated a few months ago, when we started to meet on a regular basis. At the time, we had a conversation…
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2013-08: Demographics of 1
A very quick post to get some thoughts down on paper. I used to work in consumer marketing in banking. One of the regular habits was trying to understand our customer base and our prospects. For that, we relied heavily in segmentation. Segmentation, is nothing more than trying to take a group of people (say all…
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2013-07: An Amazing Blog Post on Dating (not mine)
Another short post. I recently came across this blog post, and was floored by it! Take a read: http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2010/02/16/the-case-for-an-older-woman/ Quick points of why I liked it (beyond the content) Extremely well written: I really like the style, and hope to get to that point one day Deep research on one data set: I was floored by how…