Data-Based Design: Ignore at Your Own Peril
Highly technical design is becoming more data-driven, faster, and smarter.
Category: Big Data
The Case Against a Data Center of Excellence
Thoughts on a centralized group of data experts.
Dataviz, Design, and the Smaller Screen
With less real estate, simplicity has never been more important.
The Myth of the Big Data Switch
People who believe in immediate returns are sorely mistaken.
Dataviz, Data, and Developers
Examining whether decisions today should begin and end with data.
Facebook: The New King of Data Brokers?
Thoughts on the sale of user information.
Big Data and Privacy: Have We Reached a Turning Point?
Maybe Zuck was wrong after all.
Using Basic Data to Foil Tax Scammers
Thoughts on how little the IRS knows about Data 101.
Book Review: Dataclysm
Thoughts on Christian Rudder’s text. Two words: Buy it.
The Folly of Blaming Excel
Problem in Chair, Not in Computer
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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