The Magic of Just Putting a Spotlight on a Problem
I'll take the credit, but it was simply the magic of finally giving people the information and insight they needed to then get their jobs done.
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Murder He Calculated
Threats of federal intervention aside, it will be difficult to fix the problem of high murder rates without first addressing clearance rates. So it’s fortuitous, perhaps, that we are living in an age in which the analysis of data is supposed to help us decipher,...
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Support Bottom-up Innovation It Is Happening With Or Without You
IS researchers have argued enterprise information systems should not be built in a top-down manner but instead facilitate bottom-up innovation. Successful implementation of enterprise wide systems (such as enterprise architecture) will increasingly require negotiation and dialog rather than the imposition of ideas from central IT....
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Don’t Set A Deadline
Set a daily habit or regular practice.
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A Little More Science And A Little Less Politics
When it comes to economic data, it can be difficult to separate what people believe to be true from what they want to be true.
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Use Your Dark Data
In the same way that dark matter is an unseen but very large part of the cosmos , dark data represents the unseen but very large part of the data that most corporations collect and store.
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Maintaining Peace While Things Fall Apart
A lot of what you saw in America and you see overseas is, “I want a change.” They want a wrecking ball brought to these governments. A lot of us are sympathetic with that. We want to see something different. We want things to be...
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Use Unconventional Persistence To Prepare For The Emergency
In the runup to the planned debut of the latest MacBook Pro, Apple’s home computer division had a bit of a meltdown. Enhanced battery life was supposed to be one of the big selling points for the new version of the company’s main laptop, with...
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Lessons Learned From Cancer Treatment Doctors
Hospitals keep us healthy right? The best place to be if one is not feeling well has got to be a hospital. Well as it happens, no.
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One Easy Way To Reduce Unproductive Behavior
It’s a familiar story. Soda taxes have also flopped in New York State and San Francisco. So far, only superliberal Berkeley, Calif., has succeeded in adopting such a measure over industry objections. The obvious lesson from Philadelphia is that the soda industry is winning the...
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Make A Plan
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” — Benjamin Franklin “If you are failing to plan, you are planning to fail.” — Tariq Siddique Well, it is the New Year in many parts of the world, so why not make a plan for the...
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When Your Data Doesn’t Accurately Predict Your Progress
This is the message that American University history professor Allan Lichtman has been screaming at the world since 1981: It’s not that the polling system itself is broken — instead, polls behave exactly as they’re designed. The problem is they aren’t designed to predict the...
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You Are Only As Good As Your Project Data
As you’ve probably heard, while Hillary Clinton won the majority of the popular vote, Donald Trump was awarded more than 270 votes in the Electoral College. Many, particularly on social media, were incredulous, partly at the candidates but also at the pollsters — in particular,...
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Be An Early Mover By Challenging Conventional Wisdom
A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at the stock listings could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one selected by the experts. Burton Malkiel
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The Danger When Managing The Little Lies
From financial fraud to plagiarism, online scams and scientific misconduct, deceivers retrospectively describe how minor dishonest decisions snowballed into significant ones over time.
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