Never Waste a Good Crisis
Thoughts on what students can do in these trying times.
Category: Trends
Geeking Out Over Scrabble in Python
Writing a little script to calculate the streak needed to hit a user-defined winning percentage.
Professors: Expect Your Student Evaluations to Drop
The online experiment likely means lower numbers at the end of the semester.
Tips for Professors Teaching Online for the First Time
Some tools to help newbies weather the transition.
A Preview of Slack For Dummies
A roadmap for book number nine.
My Five Most Popular Posts from 2019
What resonated with my readers last year.
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.
Calling Bullshit on Elizabeth Holmes’ Ignorance
Anyone who knows anything about Theranos should take her claims with a 50-lb. bag of salt.
Why All College Students Need to Know the Basics of Coding
Even finance, accounting, and marketing majors should understand what makes software tick.
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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