I'm excited to share that I served as a co-author on a new O'Reilly Media report sponsored by analytics software provider Acquia. The report, Transforming Customer Data into Insights: A Chief …
Building the data academy: Understanding learner motivations
Up-skilling your workforce's data capacities is crucial to stay competitive. But learning data is hard: what is going to motivate individuals to keep at it? A cardinal rule of education is to …
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Demo guide: The Monty Hall problem
For this demo guide we'll consider one of the most vexing case studies in all of statistics and analytics. The bad news is that it may confuse and frustrate. The good news? It's a game! So get …
An Excel for all generations: Review of Alan Murray’s Advanced Excel Success
Excel's vision fulfilled Think Excel is obsolete? You may want to have a word with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who has called it the organization's most important consumer product. And features …
Your Python launch checklist
I have written about Python, the open source programming language, throughout the blog. However, I understand that my readers, traditionally Excel users, may not have Python installed on their …
Building an analytics wiki: Conversation with Michael Zelenetz
In an earlier post I reviewed Eva Murray’s Empowered by Data: How to Build Inspired Analytics Communities, a great read which really drove home the importance of establishing informal and …
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