You don’t always know what you want

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Bill Petti

Christopher Penn discusses an interesting notion–the idea that people don’t actually know what their ideal world looks like. When we try to solve a problem, or consult with others to help them solve their problems, often time we are told to start by answering this question: In a perfect world, what would this process look [...]

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Measuring Happiness via the Social Web

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Bill Petti

Nathan at FlowingData points to an application on Facebook that aims to measures happiness.   The application seeks to calculate the “Gross National Happiness” (GNH) of the United States by analyzing the ratio of positive to negative words found in users’ status updates on a daily basis. It is an interesting project and certainly relates to [...]

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The ‘Soft Sciences’ to get their Day?

Posted on September 11, 2009 by Bill Petti

In a recent report, Garnter proposes that as corporations try to benefit from the growth of social media they will come to rely more and more on employees with formal, advanced training in the social sciences. Gartner Vice President Kathy Harris discusses in some detail four areas of jobs needed in the near future. Though [...]

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Visualizing my Social Network

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Bill Petti

I’ve been getting more interested in data visualization lately (as you might have picked up by some of my recent posts). I do not have the technical skills required for really insightful, visually impressive work at this point. Thankfully, Nate at FlowingData pointed me in the direction of IBM’s Many Eyes project, which allows you [...]

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