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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Is "The South" Where You Think It Is?

Seth Godin talks about a map from the NYT showing counties where Republican voting increased. Seth’s take is about the persisting tribal effect, of course (relating to his recent work on tribes), and that’s all very well and interesting. I’m a big fan of his work. But I have two different reactions: 1. Well done, [...]

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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 [...]

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