Tag Archives: analysis & intelligence
On Data, Ferris Bueller, and Art
Our CEO Kate O’Neill has a guest blog post up today at the Nashville Technology Council site, and she’s drawing some unorthodox parallels between data insights and art: The name for this technique in art is pointillism. By creating many small dots of color, the artist can create the overall impression of an image in [...]
Waterfall vs. Optimization
Tom Fishburne nails it again: As he says in the accompanying post, the “waterfall” approach is a terrible fit for web project management: We couldn’t predict all of the potential issues when we first wrote a brief. So, requirements would inevitably change and we’d uncover issues too late to do anything about them. We would [...]
Data geekery, movie style
You’ve heard about the Netflix prize, right? (If you haven’t, the short version is: Netflix is offering $1 million prize for anyone who can come up with a substantial improvement to their recommendations engine.) I’m especially interested because 1) I am a former Netflix employee*, and I loved my work there; 2) I am a [...]