Pinboard: bookmarks for sogrady tagged 'data'

"Granted, thinking statistically is tricky. We like to construct simple cause-and-effect stories to explain the world as we experience it. “You need to train in this way of thinking. It’s not easy,” says John Allen Paulos, a Temple University mathematician.

That’s precisely the point. We often say, rightly, that literacy is crucial to public life: If you can’t write, you can’t think. The same is now true in math. Statistics is the new grammar."

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may 2010 by sogrady

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Texas Rangers among teams scouting habits of umpires - ESPN Dallas

"There's so much more data on umpires and it's much easier to track their balls-strikes calling. Guys have more specific reputations because the data is better," Oakland director of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi said.

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may 2010 by sogrady

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Thriving in the Data Flood. -- Hoover’s Business Insight Zone

"The data flood can be your friend. But you must work out how to filter, analyze, and use the abundance of good data contained in it — all in support of your company’s fundamental strategy and the value propositions that you present to customers. Otherwise, you’ll be swept away."

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march 2010 by sogrady

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How Data Will Impact the Way We Do Business

nice piece from Josh. data's impact will be felt widely and broadly.

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march 2010 by sogrady

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Partner with us | blog.infochimps.org

a bit late with this, but if you're in the data space, the Infochimps guys want to talk to you

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march 2010 by sogrady

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The making of the NYT’s Netflix graphic – The Society for News Design

just what it says. very interesting.

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january 2010 by sogrady

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If Google Reveals Secret Desires, What Can It Say About Relationships? - All Tech Considered - Technology News And Culture Blog : NPR

more on the power of data, and what Google can tell us about ourselves

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january 2010 by sogrady

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The Decade In Data - Forbes.com

tells an interesting story

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january 2010 by sogrady

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First AnalyticsCamp in Chapel Hill - The Net-Savvy Executive

i'd go if i was around

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january 2010 by sogrady

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If Health Care Is Going to Change, Dr. Brent James's Ideas Will Change It - NYTimes.com

Twittered this a while back, but deserves a link here as well. evidence based decision making is going to be far more common, soon, than it is today.

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january 2010 by sogrady

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140-Year-Old Logbooks Show Decline of Cod Fishing in Gulf of Maine

count me as unsurprised

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january 2010 by sogrady

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Want a Job? Analytics is the Thing, Says IBM - BusinessWeek

we're seeing a lot of it ourselves

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december 2009 by sogrady

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Baby-by-Number: Parents’ New Obsession With Data | Wired Science | Wired.com

what happens when the data hungry become data addicts

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december 2009 by sogrady

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MLB -- Buster Olney: There are still 266 free agents on the market. See whom your team will sign. - ESPN

"The next nine weeks will be an ugly time for a lot of fringe players, who will wait for the phone to ring with word of job offers. For a lot of older players who have had long and productive careers, the phone probably won't ring. This is not a time when teams are willing to throw a token $1 million offer, or even $700,000, at a guy just because he has put in a decade of good service. Within the front offices of almost all teams, hard decisions are being made based on hard data in a way that we have never seen before." - data driven decision making in action

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december 2009 by sogrady

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Good Data and Flawed Conclusions - WSJ.com

Simpson's paradox is interesting and highly relevant to those seeking to draw meaningful conclusions from data

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december 2009 by sogrady

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Police fighting crime in city by the numbers | Portland Press Herald

using data to prevent crime

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november 2009 by sogrady

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Q&A With Avinash Kaushik, Google Analytics Evangelist & Customer Insight Guru

"Numbers are hard to come by on this but in my humble experience a tiny fraction of people who should use data productively access it, and a tiny fraction of that actually end up using data effectively. We, as a universe, have a long way to go."

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november 2009 by sogrady

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Boston.com Mobile

""The beauty of releasing the data is it frees us from having to develop the applications ourselves,'' said Chris Dempsey, an assistant secretary in the Massachusetts Executive Office of Transportation. "That's expensive and something that we're not very good at.''"

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november 2009 by sogrady

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Personal data warehouse · Nat Friedman

i could not agree more. i want to be able to store, mine, and use my own data with reasonable performance and tools.

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november 2009 by sogrady

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Google's Marissa Mayer Assaults Designers With Data | Designerati | Fast Company

the better question; why would you NOT assault designers with data?

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october 2009 by sogrady

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Are Algorithms the Magic Bullet? - Caleb Elston

magic bullet might be pushing it, but not by much

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august 2009 by sogrady

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Andy Kessler: Why AT&T Killed Google Voice - WSJ.com

"How could AT&T not object? AT&T clings to the old business of charging for voice calls in minutes. It takes not much more than 10 kilobits per second of data to handle voice. In a world of megabit per-second connections, that's nothing—hence Google's proposal to offer voice calls for no cost and heap on features galore." - voice is only 10 kilobits? i hadn't known that.

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august 2009 by sogrady

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Data Store: Facts you can use | Data Store | guardian.co.uk

open data from...the media? interesting

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july 2009 by sogrady

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Pitchf/x Summit portends bright future - Baseball Prospectus - ESPN

it does indeed. the implications of the data being collected are deeper by the minute

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july 2009 by sogrady

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How Red Sox pitchers work the strike zone - Tony Massarotti sports blog - Boston.com

a perfect example of what the mainstream media could do with better data if they cared to. while i continue to have my differences with Mazz, this is a very nice piece; wish we saw more of this.

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july 2009 by sogrady

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And Data for All: Why Obama's Geeky New CIO Wants to Put All Gov't Info Online

this is a fantastic interview. if Kundra [and the community] is able to execute on even a quarter of the promise here, we're all going to be well rewarded

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june 2009 by sogrady

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The Nike Experiment: How the Shoe Giant Unleashed the Power of Personal Metrics

"We tend to think of our physical selves as a system that's simply too complex to comprehend. But what we've learned from companies like Google is that if you can collect enough data, there's no need for a grand theory to explain a phenomenon. You can observe it all through the numbers. Everything is data. You are your data, and once you understand that data, you can act on it."

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june 2009 by sogrady

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HealthDataRights.org

Adam Bosworth built it. i'm following it.

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june 2009 by sogrady

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Broadband Stimulus Plan: How About Some Data First? | Epicenter from Wired.com

agreed. on a macro level, the principle makes sense, but more data - far more data - is required.

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december 2008 by sogrady

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A quote from Mark Pilgrim

what about Sumerian cuneiform tablets?

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december 2008 by sogrady

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Official Google Blog: Sorting 1PB with MapReduce

as a couple of folks have observed to me now, it's interesting that Google isn't further ahead than it is

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december 2008 by sogrady

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Live Piracy Map

the obvious conclusion: there are a lot of pirates

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december 2008 by sogrady

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Where the oil comes from: Not from where I thought « Jon Udell

"When I do these kinds of exercises, I’m always struck by two things. First, it amazes me how much of what we think we know is wrong. I was sure that the Middle East was the dominant regional source.

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november 2008 by sogrady

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Welcome to HBase!

interesting.

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july 2008 by sogrady

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Cool Crisis Management? It's a Myth. Ask JFK. - washingtonpost.com

"The president may be the best-informed person in the world, but there's still much that he doesn't know. The beginning of wisdom for any president -- certainly including JFK -- is understanding that you are groping about in the dark. "

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june 2008 by sogrady

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Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » Government Data and the Invisible Hand

"In order for public data to benefit from the same innovation...that characterize private parties’ use of the Internet, the..government must...should focus on creating a...publicly accessible infrastructure that “exposes” the underlying data." +1

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june 2008 by sogrady

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Sabernomics » Blog Archive » April Homers

what a difference a little data makes

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may 2008 by sogrady

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Google App Engine Blog: Getting your data on, and off, of Google App Engine

"One upcoming feature of Google App Engine that's worth mentioning is large-scale data import and export."

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april 2008 by sogrady

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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Rumor: Microsoft set for vast data-center push

this isn't what we got, really, but it's still interesting. certainly this is where i think Microsoft has to go.

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march 2008 by sogrady

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Google's Data Asset | Union Square Ventures: A New York Venture Capital Fund Focused on Early Stage & Startup Investing

this is an excellent piece that describes perfectly why i feel that judging popular web properties solely on the basis of revenue generated may lead to undervaluation. the data - in the right hands - can have immense value

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february 2008 by sogrady

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Luis Villa’s Blog / wesabe ‘data bill of rights’

"My intuition is that this is a really good start in the right direction for web apps; he himself notes, though, that it isn’t legally binding. They are considering doing that- will be very interesting to see that if/when it happens."

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january 2008 by sogrady

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Google Reveals New MapReduce Stats

just what it says

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january 2008 by sogrady

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The Scoble scuffle: Facebook, Plaxo at odds over data portability | The Social - CNET News.com

i'd be more sympathetic if it wasn't Plaxo; while they've somewhat rehabilitated themselves from their spamming past, i still get far too many "reminders" from them

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january 2008 by sogrady

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Research In Motion: What Slowdown?

"Analysts figured cuts in corporate tech spending would hurt the BlackBerry maker's earnings. But smart marketing to consumers has paid off." - consumer markets matter. who'd a thunk it?

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december 2007 by sogrady

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Fastball, slider, changeup, curveball—an analysis -- The Hardball Times

really thought the slider would have more horizontal break, on average, than it does. but apart from that, fascinating example of what baseball lovers can do with more data. he who has the most data, wins.

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december 2007 by sogrady

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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: He with the most data wins

couldn't agree more

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december 2007 by sogrady

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Google wants your phonemes | IDGNS | News | October 23, 2007 | By Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service

"Because we're processing so much data, we have a lot of context around things like acronyms. Suddenly, the search engine seems smart like it achieved that semantic understanding, but it hasn't really. It has to do with brute force." - ergo, volume kills

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december 2007 by sogrady

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Nobody goes swimming any more « Jon Udell

fascinating application of the ManyEyes technology to weather data; need to explore this for the geographies i frequent

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july 2007 by sogrady

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Verizon Redefines The Word Unlimited | RIMarkable | The official, unofficial BlackBerry Weblog

"Jeffrey Nelson, Verizon Wireless spokesman, said that calling the service, 'unlimited' is not misleading. 'It’s very clear in all the legal materials...' he said. 'It’s unlimited amounts of data for certain types of data,' he said." - Verizon sucks

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june 2007 by sogrady

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John Battelle's Searchblog: The Data Bill of Rights

some good basic thoughts on data rights from Battelle

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may 2007 by sogrady

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tecznotes

"The comments on Adrian's post ("microformats!" "semantic web!") reduce reporters to glorified UPS guys, waving their little hand-held journo-data-collectors around instead of asking insightful questions." - do not agree