Dave Snowden

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

The interesting feature is that on all the statistical evidence Ireland should have had a walk over, but they lost. The trouble is that statistics count what can be counted and that can never be the whole picture. Of course in the ordered aspects of any enterprise statistics and numbers can do a lot of the work for you, but in a complex situation they can be dangerous. Watching the rugby match between Scotland and Ireland today was interesting for a neutral.

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Dave Snowden

DECEMBER 26, 2014

It is a growing problem in health care with statistics seeming to dominate over biology in respect of evidence. That statistical engines then run and correlations are identified which are then distilled into prescriptive or advisory recipes for managers seeking to know outcome before action.

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Statistics Data Report Knowledge Management 201

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

APRIL 30, 2014

But, analyzing data is something people have been doing with statistics and related methods for a while. “Why Why then do we need a new term like data science when we have had statistics for centuries?

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Stephen Downes: Half an Hour

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Here's what we have for participation rates in the #Change11 MOOC this far. Persons' are people who have registered for the course. The gap between persons and subscriptions is the number of people who signed up for the course but unsubscribed to the newsletter.'Subscriptions' Subscriptions' is the number of people subscribing to the daily newsletter.'Feeds' Feeds' is the number of blogs submitted by course participants and harvested by the feed reader. It includes active feeds only

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TOPYX LMS

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

The following statistics prove that online learning is well worth investing in. Is online learning really valuable to companies?

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David Weinberger

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The Census Bureau is no longer going to fund the creation of the Statistical Abstract of the United States, apparently in order to save $3M a year. If the absence of a Statistical Abstract increases search time by even two minutes, then the cost, based on the all-in average pay of reference librarians, will be about five times the federal savings.

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Statistics Cost Search Study 118

Mind Hacks

OCTOBER 3, 2015

No scientific paper is perfect, but a recent result on the effect of mood on colour perception is getting a particularly rough ride post-publication.

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Stephen Downes: Half an Hour

AUGUST 5, 2005

Technorati right now offers no statistical validity and should not be quoted as indicative of web trends or blogosphere trends. Re: Technorati's State of Blogs report Joho writes: "Dave Sifry has been posting data Technorati has gathered about the size and nature of the blogosphere, at least the big chunk of it Technorati knows about." Sorry to complain, but this report is almost completely implausible.

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TOPYX LMS

MARCH 11, 2019

eLearning has become a popular mode of sales training for companies. In fact, “ eLearning is the fastest-growing modality for sales training,” stated Monarch Media.

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TOPYX LMS

JULY 13, 2018

Businesses know that employee training is important, but just how much does it matter? LMS eLearning and Corporate Training Business Performance

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Statistics eLearning Training 46

TOPYX LMS

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Online learning statistics aren’t merely dry facts; they are gusts of wind that blow companies in one direction or another. Statistics help businesses discover whether or not what they are doing is working. A Summary of the Online Learning Consortium’s 2016 Statistics.

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Statistics eLearning Education Features 83

Martijn Linssen

JANUARY 15, 2011

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Jane Hart

JUNE 7, 2014

Another interactive infographic – this one form Digital Insights – that lets you tweet the statistics. Isn’t loading? Try this. Social learning

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Statistics Social Learning 219

Mind Hacks

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

The British Psychological Society's monthly magazine The Psychologist is continuing to dip its toes into the world of open-access and has made the entire March edition freely available online. A couple of articles stand out. The first is on stigma that discusses studies on how we internally structure information and notes that even here, the golden ratio may play a role, with a crucial 68% / 32% split on negative and positive information being linked to stigmatised people.

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Martijn Linssen

JANUARY 14, 2011

why not both Home About Contact Friday, 14 January 2011 Enterprise microblogging: measuring true value "is relative" Yammer announced a new feature yesterday : Leaderboards Leaderboards gives users access to statistics about their network activity. Business or Pleasure? -

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Martijn Linssen

JUNE 25, 2010

All Ive done is cut out one part and saved that as JPEG, as to minimise its size (thus increasing the performance of this blog post page) First, a few statistically impossible deviations. Business or Pleasure? - why not both Home About Contact Friday, 25 June 2010 Get your act together!

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Steven Berlin Johnson

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

stevenberlinjohnson.com « September | Main | Clear Evidence That Apple Reads This Blog Religiously » Gearing Up Those of you who read the first pages of Everything Bad Is Good For You know that I was freakishly obsessed with baseball, and particularly baseball statistics, when I was a young kid.

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Doc Searls

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

The only math course I took in college was Statistics. Tags: "Bregman divergences" Berkman Center math wdbs "Dean Landsman" VRM infrastructure wfxc "Science Digest" partitioning Business brainstorm Berkman Science "Jonathan Zittrain" jz zittrain statistics

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Dan Pink

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

You might feel helpless in the face of such an overwhelming statistic. Dan Pink. Contact. Follow Dan on Twitter. About Dan. Speaking Engagements. Video. Articles. Office Hours. Drive. A Whole New Mind. Johnny Bunko. Daniel H.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 29, 2008

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Statistics Metrics Web 2.0 Issues 100

Andy McAfee

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

As he wrote, “Given the advances in baseball statistics, one might hope it would be possible to deploy modern analytical tools to adjust today’s chemically enhanced stats and put them on a level playing field with those of yesteryear. More specifically, we’d expect to see increases in the standard deviation (a measure of spread) of all hitters’ batting averages, all pitchers’ walks+hits per inning pitched (WHIP), and other such statistics.

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Nine Shift

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

To follow up on yesterday's blog entry, here's some statistics to back up the hoped-for claim that Millennials are voting more this year. Pennsylvania is leading the groundswell, with registered voters 34 and younger now outnumbering those 65 and older, according to the latest statistics from the Pennsylvania State Department issued Aug 13.

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Statistics Issues Blogging 100

TOPYX LMS

JUNE 13, 2019

1 This statistic indicates that many eLearning courses aren’t as effective as they should be, but measuring the effectiveness of each course exactly can be a complex process.

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Nine Shift

JUNE 25, 2014

But one person at the university said the university offers a minor in his chosen area, statistics. Another person at the university said the university does NOT offer a minor in statistics. Selecting a major and minor easy? Not so fast.

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Statistics Class 141

Jane Hart

JUNE 20, 2011

This is a shorter version that includes new social media statistics for 2011. Tweet. I’ve been waiting for this! The 2011 revision of the well known video by Erik Qualmann.

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Video Statistics 278

Jane Hart

JANUARY 10, 2013

Each theme has 4 trends and each trend is supported by 4 examples, supporting statistics and implications defined by PSFK Labs team. This presentation, from Innovation Excellence , explores the new ways we are working and the implications for business and for workers.

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Mind Hacks

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Type I and Type II errors are, respectively, when you allow a statistical test to convinces you of a false effect, and when you allow a statistical test to convince you to dismiss a true effect.

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Types Statistics 114

Nine Shift

AUGUST 27, 2011

Guy Felder of Houston sends us this interesting statistic: . Traffic on the most travelled flight segment in the US: LaGuardia to DC is down…it's more convenient to take the train

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Training Statistics 151

TOPYX LMS

MAY 14, 2020

1 This statistic shows how important it is that companies make the most of the talent they already have. It’s more critical than ever for companies to take the initiative to develop their employees.

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Tips Statistics Survey Company 72

Andy McAfee

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

His talk was titled “How the GDP Statistics Ignore Free Goods and Why it Matters.” Here’s the money slide from Erik’s Brynjolfsson’s presentation earlier today at the Techonomy 2012 conference.

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Statistics Research Conference 257

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

If so, can you device tests to measure the group’s intelligence using methodologies and statistical techniques similar to those that have been applied to measure the IQs of individuals for the past hundred years?

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Statistics Data System Issues 275

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

JANUARY 7, 2019

Deep learning is a powerful statistical technique for classifying patterns using large training data sets and multi-layer AI neural networks. That was how the Higgs was discovered, emerging from the statistical noise in the autumn of 2011.”.

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Irving Wladawsky-Berger

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

E ach node in an AI neural network is connected to many other such nodes, and the links can be statistically strengthened or weakened based on the data used to train the system. “We speak of machines that think , learn , and infer.

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Data Statistics System Patterns 227

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Deep learning is a powerful statistical technique for classifying patterns using large training data sets and multi-layer AI neural networks. The deep in deep learning refers to its highly sophisticated, multi-layered statistical properties.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 1, 2020

We could try education, with statistics, or horror stories. There’re are statistical arguments about the likelihood of infection of each party if one, the other, or both wear masks. A colleague and friend posted about masks, and I weighed in. He suggested that it’s really a learning issue. I’m not sure I agree, but I thought it might be interesting to explore. So here’s an L&D challenge to consider. First, masks make sense , scientifically.

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Dave Snowden

JANUARY 20, 2014

A series of emails and skype calls today built up a head of frustration with some people's obsession with statistics and data. Another with a colleague frustrated by people talking about the validity of statistical patterns for low volume datasets and not realising that simple visualisation can enable an intelligent person who make sufficient sense to act. Humans can change the context through intent (or accidentally) which can render any statistics out of date/data/meaning.

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TOPYX LMS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

manufacturers are short 450,000 employees, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In the U.S.,

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TOPYX LMS

JANUARY 28, 2019

Bureau of Labor Statistics indicate the base of tech occupations will increase by 626,000 jobs by 2026,” stated CompTIA. The estimated direct economic output of the technology industry is $1.6 trillion, which comprises 9.2 percent of the United States’ economy, according to Cyberstates TM,1.

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Irving Wladawsky-Berger

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Sabermetrics , - the use of statistics in baseball to project a player’s performance and career, - is one such prominent example. The scouts’ predictions were about 15 percent better than those that relied on statistics alone.

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TOPYX LMS

JANUARY 3, 2019

Thirty-five Customer Experience Statistics to Know for 2019¹ stated, “Customers no longer base their loyalty on price or product. Companies are increasing their focus on the customer experience, and for good reason: happy customers are loyal customers. Instead, they stay loyal with companies due to the experience they receive. If you cannot keep up with their increasing demands, your customers will leave you.”. Are your current customers loyal to your brand?

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Nine Shift

JUNE 2, 2016

In the wake of an unfortunate accident on Washington DC's metro line, the story cites statistics that show driving is far more dangerous than riding the DC metro NineShifter Scott Rogers of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, sends the link to this story. Scott said, "Saw this and thought of you." . Here's the story, USDOT To Shut Down Nation's Roads, Citing Safety Concerns. Thanks Scott ! Photo: Scott Rogers.

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Statistics 100

Nine Shift

MAY 7, 2012

Last month the government came out with statistics showing that suburbs are now starting to retreat. We nailed it! This time we got the exact year right! . Two years ago we predicted in writing that suburbs would go into decline in 2012.

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Xyleme

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

While this trend continues to grow, statistics are showing that instructor-led training (ILT) is not dead. Organizations continue to focus on implementing new and innovative ways to implement digital learning. In fact, according to the 2019 Brandon Hall Study , ILT remains the primary form of learning delivery in organizations – a whopping 94%, as opposed to eLearning at 77%. For years, learning experts have been predicting that ILT will slowly phase out. So why hasn’t it?

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