Blog
I am much more of 🦊 than 🦔. No, I don’t blog every day, but it’s fair to say that I’m pretty prolific. On this site alone, you’ll find a boatload of posts on higher education, Big Data, technology, management, platforms, communications, analytics, and other topics. They generally fall into the following buckets: insights, provocations, musings, predictions, and rants. I writie more about big ideas than listicles and snackable content. Finally, I inject humor often into my posts and despise jargon.
Office Setup of a Tech-Savvy Professor
Here’s the hardware that to use to make the magic happen.
Three Main Types of Capstone Project Problems
In this post, I’ll describe some common issues and what to do about them.
The Case for Early Student Evaluations
How feedback at the start of the semester can help nip issues in the bud.
Four Sites that I Recommend to My Analytics Students
Those who can effectively incorporate data and analytics into their writing are poised to prosper.
Three of My Favorite In-Class Exercises
A few of the ways that I try to make learning as active as possible.
Why I Have Never Visited My Rate My Professor Page
And why I never will.
Why I’m Switching to Canvas This Summer
I’m all in on ASU’s new learning management system.
Tools of a Tech-Savvy Professor
These applications and tools make my life quite a bit easier.
Three Ways to Manage Capstone Projects
Looking at the different approaches to impart knowledge.
Visualizing Flows
Sankey diagrams can display data in very interesting ways.
My Latest HBR Article on the Benefits of Friction
In an excerpt from my latest book, I describe how one company used analytics and Agile methods to largely solve a thorny problem.
Slack Channels of a College Professor
How I separate communication with my students and keep myself sane in the process.
Characteristics of My Best Students
These traits set my star pupils apart.
Four Courses I Would Love to Teach
If I could wave my magic wand…
What if Facebook had charged its users?
Would the company find itself in its current predicament?
Dataviz: Interactivity Increases Understanding
A few more minutes of development can pay off in spades.
My New Book
Analytics: The Agile Way—my eighth book—is out.
Featured Talk: How to Create a Culture of Analytics
A 50-minute talk about Big Data and what we can learn from Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, and Google.
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