Analytical tools begin with psychology
“We compete on data,” a CEO meows. Continue Reading
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The Guesswork Era may still beat Big Data
You can’t just introduce a new business paradigm on the fly without considering the psychology of your executives. Continue Reading
Future employment: Data translators
Following the bouncing ball (or the data-brick road). Continue Reading
Business metrics: You’re doing it wrong. Let’s fix it.
It’s really hard to do business metrics well unless you have a culture of honesty and transparency, and most companies do not. You can still grab, scrub, analyze, and decide off data and business metrics, but there will be a lot of politics, BS, under-cutting, and the like preventing true success. Continue Reading
Big Data: You need to actually be able to explain things to people. We forget that step.
That right there is a data visualization Florence Nightingale did over 100 years ago; I found it in this post from Kellogg (Northwestern), which is an awesome article about visualizing data. I won’t go super deep into this — you… Continue Reading
What if Big Data actually makes decision-making slower?
Here’s what we seem to know about the idea of “Big Data” at this point: More or less, it might be “the future.” Despite it being the “future,” we don’t seem to be teaching it enough yet for the next… Continue Reading
Stephen J. Dubner pushes back on Big Data
Big Data is one of the more interesting intersection points in recent human history (sorry to oversell that, which I admittedly probably did). Here’s what we know: C-Suite executives value the idea as a concept, but don’t really know exactly… Continue Reading
Netflix’s success isn’t really about algorithms
We live in this algorithm-dominated world now, and part of the reason that emerged — aside from simply better technology and people focusing on it — was because for generations, a ton of big decisions were made on the gut… Continue Reading