PHIL SIMON
Maybe Zuck was wrong after all.
Category: Data
“In God we trust. All others must bring data.”
—W. Edwards Deming
Category: Data
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
Zappos Talk on The Visual Organization
I recently spoke to about 100 employees about my new book.
To Store or Not to Store
Strategy without execution is meaningless.
How to Break Into Dataviz
How do I get a dataviz job without any related experience?
Big Data: It Depends
Thoughts on the silliness of answering certain data-related questions.
The Folly of the Perfect Prediction
Never conflate the terms better and perfect.
Past ≈ Future?
Thoughts on whether Big Data will result in more accurate forecasts.