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# My Most Popular Posts From 2014
- URL: https://www.philsimon.com/my-most-popular-posts-from-2014/
- Published: 2014-11-30T13:26:44.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-11T20:28:41.000Z
- Description: A look at the data from the past year.
- Author: Phil Simon
- Tags: Analytics, Trends, Data Science, Rush, Training, Writing

![stats](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8f/b5/8fb5e321-49a6-4cf5-8a28-c6f6d5417e54/content/images/2025/05/stats-jpeg-2.jpg)

Since traffic starts to wane about now on the Interwebs ever year, now's as good a time as any to post my most popular posts this year. (No surprise that my interview with a certain drummer was the runaway winner.)

Without further ado, here they are in descending order of popularity:

- [My Interview with Neil Peart](https://www.philsimon.com/neil-peart-interview/) (Props to [@rushisaband](https://www.twitter.com/rushisaband?ref=philsimon.com) for the link love here.)
- [Big Data and Teenage Sex](https://www.philsimon.com/blog/featured/big-data-and-teenage-sex/)
- [What Should I Ask Neil Peart?](https://www.philsimon.com/what-should-i-ask-neil-peart/)
- [Reporting vs. Analytics](https://www.philsimon.com/blog/big-data/reporting-vs-analytics/)
- [Book Trailer for The Visual Organization](https://www.philsimon.com/blog/big-data/book-trailer-for-the-visual-organization/)
- [The Myth of the Data Scientist](https://www.philsimon.com/blog/featured/the-myth-of-the-data-scientist/)
- [Last to Cool](https://www.philsimon.com/last-to-cool/)
- [Three Ways Writers Evolve Over Time](https://www.philsimon.com/three-ways-writers-evolve-over-time/)
- [The Visual Organization Book Tour: San Fran](https://www.philsimon.com/the-visual-organization-book-tour/)
- [Should Training be Role- or Process-Based?](https://www.philsimon.com/blog/project-management/should-training-be-role-or-process-based/)
- [Social Networking in the Workplace](https://www.philsimon.com/blog/social-media/socialnetworking-at-work/)
- [Why Microsoft Access 2007 Sucks](https://www.philsimon.com/why-microsoft-access-2007-sucks/)
- [Why Big Data Is Like Porn](https://www.philsimon.com/why-big-data-is-like-porn/)
- [Six Archetypes of Bad Project Managers](https://www.philsimon.com/six-archetypes-of-bad-project-managers/)
- [Dilbert and Big Data](https://www.philsimon.com/dilbert-and-big-data/)
- [My Interview with Steve Hogarth of Marillion](https://www.philsimon.com/my-interview-with-steve-hogarth-of-marillion/)
- [Refine Your Data the Google Way](https://www.philsimon.com/blog/big-data/refine-your-data-the-google-way/)
- [Travails of a Technology Consultant #5: Scope Creep](https://www.philsimon.com/blog/cartoons/travails-5/)
- [Four Big Data Models](https://www.philsimon.com/four-big-data-models/)