Never Waste a Good Crisis
Thoughts on what students can do in these trying times.
Category: Technology
Geeking Out Over Scrabble in Python
Writing a little script to calculate the streak needed to hit a user-defined winning percentage.
A Quick Note on Slack’s New UI and Slack For Dummies
The new book reflects Slack’s most updated version.
Tips for Professors Teaching Online for the First Time
Some tools to help newbies weather the transition.
Who’s Won the Most Majors? An Interactive Dataviz
With the US Open going on, why not play with some golf data?
Visualizing Men’s Grand Slam Winners
Playing with data and discovering insights have never been easier.
What I Learned Visiting an Amazon Fulfillment Center
Thoughts on my recent tour of an insanely large facility.
Reflections on Carnegie Mellon 25 Years Later
Thoughts on the most important skills and abilities that I picked up at CMU.
Reflections on Supervising More than 100 Capstone Projects
Thoughts on some of my students’ best work.
The Five Best Books I Read in 2018
The texts that rocked my world this past year.
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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