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Go Where the Data Take You, Even If It’s to New Jersey… 15 Aug 2013 | 11:30 pm
Baseball numbers geek Jonah Keri (author of two books: Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong, which I can heartily recommend, and The Extra 2%: How Wall Street ...
Big Data’s Three Questions (Answers Available Starting Next Week) 1 Aug 2013 | 09:35 pm
Just a quick note to let people know that I’ll be speaking at three events over the next two weeks as part of Oracle’s Big Data At Work series. Dates and places are August 6 in San Jose August 8 in ...
Manufacturing: Where the Jobless Recovery Is Most Evident 26 Jul 2013 | 09:09 pm
Over at Slate, Matthew Yglesias has a sharp post about what he calls the ‘Mythical American Manufacturing Renaissance.’ He uses three FRED-generated charts to make his point. The first shows the recen...
The Latest Employment Data: No New News Here 9 Jul 2013 | 09:17 pm
A few months back back I used FRED to draw a graph of the employment situation in America, in particular the health of the jobs recovery from the great recession. I argued, pretty uncontroversially, t...
A Geek Technologist’s Summer Reading List 5 Jul 2013 | 07:13 pm
Now that July 4 is past and we’re squarely in the heart of summer, I thought I’d share a few of the books I’m looking forward to reading between now and Labor Day. I know I’m forgetting a bunch of gre...
Kill the Umpires 27 Jun 2013 | 09:29 pm
The sports-and-stats-obsessed geeks over at Deadspin (one of my favorite sites) put together a series called “Better Know an Umpire” to acquaint baseball fans with the people who make the calls that d...
The Audience Voted, and You Know They Picked a Winner 14 Jun 2013 | 07:54 pm
Following up on my post from yesterday: The debate between me and Bob Gordon hosted by The Economist ended yesterday, and today moderator Ryan Avent announced that the winner was…. me (woo hoo!). A...
We Debate That 13 Jun 2013 | 07:53 pm
The Economist invited me and Bob Gordon to their site to debate the question “Is Technological Progress Accelerating?” over the past week. We’ve submitted opening statements, rebuttals, and closing st...
The Path to Better Decisions, in One Cute Graph 30 May 2013 | 08:09 pm
As I was getting ready for a panel discussion on big data a little while ago I tried to think of a concise (i.e. panel-friendly) way to explain why I thought the current data explosion was such a big ...
To Understand Where We’re Headed, Read This Essay Written 64 Years Ago 23 May 2013 | 10:18 pm
Norbert Wiener was at MIT legend. He taught at the Institute for a long time (after getting his PhD from Harvard at age 17), where he epitomized the absent-minded professor. Of the legion of perhaps-a...
