Stats and Sports

The World Cup is a very complicated tournament – six games, seven if you make it to the final – and maybe if you lose one game you’re out, even if you’re the best. Pele Over the last ten years , since the book Moneyball came out, analytics have...

Meeting Madness

It used to be presumed that if you weren’t at your desk working, you weren’t working,  But we said,  ‘Why can’t we make a workplace where casual meetings are as important as working at your desk?’   Sometimes that’s where your...

Social Media for fun or for profit?

When I hear people debate the ROI of social media?   It makes me remember why so many business fail.   Most businesses are not playing the marathon.   They’re playing the sprint.   They’re not worried about lifetime value and retention.   They’re...
Being Competitive

Being Competitive

Tell me and I forget.   Teach me and I remember.   Involve me and I learn. Benjamin Franklin Why or why not?   While part of your brain works on that question, I want to share a couple thoughts with the other part of your brain that is going to keep reading.   Those...
Election Lessons

Election Lessons

It is enough that the people know there was an election.   The people who cast the votes decide nothing.   The people who count the votes decide everything. Joseph Stalin Political polls use the same basic methodology as much of the statistical hypothesis testing work...