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Dear lord, it’s a statistics entry! Run for your lives! No, no, I promise this will be as painless as possible for you all. I want to talk about log-transformed charts. Why? Well, we often log transform a chart axis in order to expose data. When data has an extreme range, subtle details in the […]
March 24, 2010
I ran into a great story on the critical few that I couldn’t help but share with you all. One of the memberships my company has is to the Corporate Executive Board (CEB, hereafter). They’re like Forrester or Gartner Group in terms of doing research that the resell to companies as a service. Want to […]
March 23, 2010
This week has been interesting thus far. Never satisfied with the learning I’ve done to date, I decided to take up a Lean Master training course. LEAN has largely avoided the idea of ranking skill proficiency in the same strict manner that Six Sigma has, but an industry and some de facto standards always arise […]
March 17, 2010
I spent 30 minutes comforting my daughter the other night due to three anxieties – getting too big to be carried by me, getting too big to use her special chair and table and her teeth falling out. Kids have the craziest fears sometimes. In this case the fears were all about change. Although my […]
March 10, 2010
Today I had a panic. A brief one, but the kind of panic you get when you realize that the position you have taken on something might be wrong and you will need to revise your view of the world. That is, of course, if you are the kind of person who ever takes in […]
March 9, 2010
A good friend of mine happens to blog regularly about the media industry and how music/media piracy may be a good thing for content creators. Essentially, he argues, the presence of piracy has been shown to have a positive effect on sales of the physical media when it comes out (like CDs, DVDs, etc.). In […]
March 29, 2010
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