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Alan Schwarz’s The Numbers Game is an indispensable look at how the numbers that have come to define the game of baseball came to be. The book is less about the hallowed numbers that even casual fans can identify; Aaron’s 755 home runs, DiMaggio’s 56 game hit-streak, Nolan Ryan’s 5714 strikeouts, Cy Young’s 511 wins, Pete Rose’s [...]
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It’s that time of year again. The passing of the summer, the start of the fall. Most importantly, it signals the start of that most magical of times–the start of the fantasy football season. This year I am in three leagues–one for work, one for “stat-geeks”, and one for family and friends. I decided to [...]
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Most everyone has heard Peter Drucker’s famous dictum “What gets measured gets done”, the implication being that unless specific behaviors and outcomes are measured they aren’t likely to be given much attention. In this month’s HBR, Dan Ariely suggests that this notion of measurement-driving-behavior explains many of the problems with current CEO behavior and suggests [...]
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I’ve written before about how IBM dove headfirst into the world of Big Data. They’ve made a big bet on the revolutionary possibilities available to business, governments, and individuals given the revolution in data capture and analytics we are entering. At this point you’ve all seen this point made in various ways through IBM’s Smarter Planet [...]
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Music to analytically-driven ears: [...] IBM is unveiling a new internal analytics product that the company is touting as the “largest private cloud computing environment for business analytics in the world,” which launches internally with more than a petabyte of information. Along with this internal product, IBM will launch a companion product for clients to [...]
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[Fair warning: what follows is quite lengthy] Well, it is performance review time at work and this reminded me of a post I’ve been meaning to write for a while. An issue that has always interested me is how organizations measure individual performance. Organizations have finite resources and therefore must deploy those resources in the [...]
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So says Professor Jimmy Lin at the University of Maryland in a recent NYT Technology article about the shortfall in “Big Data-competent” university students. The article points out that the kind of data we are now dealing with (which will only continue to increase exponentially) requires a different perspective and experience than most currently have. [...]
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I’ve run across quite a few stories lately discussing the 1) the revolution in data production we are living through and 2) the challenges we face in being able to sift through and view that data in a meaningful way through the web. The first comes from GigaOM, where Jennifer Martinez looks at the emerging [...]
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For those that are interested the “living by numbers” and personal metrics trend, be sure to check out your.flowingdata. Your.flowingdata is a great interface that allows you to track your daily behavior through quick, direct messages on twitter. Want to track how far you walk, how much you eat, how often you spend online versus [...]
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Dan at Predictably Irrational further discusses the results of his FREE! experiment. Basically, the simple fact that something is made available free creates a preference for that good even when the relative difference in price between that good and a presumably better one stays constant. However Dan recounts the results of some different variations on [...]
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Fiction
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
Non-fiction
The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value
The Numbers Game
Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception
The Rational Optimist
The Quiet American
How Doctors Think
The Wisdom of Whores
Switch
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
