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. That as they say is the tail of a statistical restriction wagging the dog of truth. But they are not causal and statistics alone do not provide an explanation of why.

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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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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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TOPYX LMS

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

The following statistics prove that online learning is well worth investing in. Is online learning really valuable to companies? That’s a question most organizational leaders need an answer to before they decide to purchase and implement a learning management system or other online learning tools. The fact is that online learning has incredible business value. It can provide a competitive advantage and reduce training costs.

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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? Data Science is emerging as as one of the hottest new professions and academic disciplines in these early years of the 21st century. A number of articles have noted that the demand for data scientists is racing ahead of supply.

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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. Thorstenson and colleagues published their paper this summer in Psychological Science , claiming that people who were sad had impaired colour perception along the blue-yellow colour axis but not along the red-green colour axis.

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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. 1 However, because sales training is crucially important to business success, the switch to online sales training has been slower than in other training areas.

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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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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. At TOPYX, we appreciate the organizations doing hard work to deliver accurate, timely statistics. A Summary of the Online Learning Consortium’s 2016 Statistics. These statistics are highly valuable to the education sector.

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Statistics eLearning Education Features 63

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 191

Martijn Linssen

JANUARY 15, 2011

Business or Pleasure? -

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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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Statistics Comparison Study 40

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

They are absolutely not up to the road lying ahead, simply because their statistics and calculations are erratic at best I have collected a lot of screenshots, before you know it theyll fix their problems behind my back again without giving me credit for it, which is Lesson 1: Communicate openly and honestly Note: I have not edited any of the screenshots. 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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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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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 In a meeting yesterday, somebody on the IRC shared a link to “Bregman divergences in the ( m × k ) -partitioning problem&# , from Science Digest. Sez the abstract, A method of fixed cardinality partition is examined.

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Irving Wladawsky-Berger

JULY 17, 2021

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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Types Statistics Issues Education 263

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. Pink is the author of four provocative bestselling books about the changing world of work. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife and their three children. More about Dan.

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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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Stephen Downes: Half an Hour

AUGUST 3, 2021

The same is true of statistical and sampling bias; if a body of evidence is insufficient or unrepresentative, then this is an argument any person with sufficient statistical knowledge can produce.

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Statistics Sample Samples Culture 148

Harold Jarche

AUGUST 6, 2021

Every fortnight I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds. After a two-week hiatus I will slowly get back to more regular blogging. PicardTips — “Picard management tip: Keep group meetings short. Take your time with one-on-ones.”

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Statistics Innovation Tips Meeting 218

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. Willie is set to start classes at the university, a great victory. He has selected a major. The kicker: both people are student advisors at the university. Summer flowers on our local university campus.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 8, 2021

I also was pointed to Tim Harford’s The Data Detective , and I do think it’s a well done work about how to interpret statistical claims. It didn’t grip me quite as viscerally as the afore-mentioned books, but I think that’s because I (over-)trust my background in data and statistics.

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Statistics Review Data Research 158

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. Despite being fundamentally important concepts, they are terribly named. Who can ever remember which way around the two errors go? Well now I can, thanks to a comment from a friend I thought so useful I made it into a picture: Theory

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Types Statistics 87

Harold Jarche

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Well-designed graphs, videos, photos, and other semantic aids can be helpful to convey corrections involving complex or statistical information clearly and concisely.

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Handbook Guidelines Statistics News 245

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

JULY 30, 2021

But on June 3, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that US labour productivity increased by 5.4%

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Products Productivity Data Policies 203

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. LMS learners waste up to 40 percent of their time due to "frustrating experiences" with online courses, per eLearning Industry. eLearning LMS LMS Reporting

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Metrics Report eLearning Course 56

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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Patterns Statistics Data Complexity 192

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. Constant Learning is one of the key themes, and includes Learning by doing, Digital Knowledge Updates and Networked Learning. The Future of Work from Innovation Excellence. Collaboration Social learning

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Statistics Trends Innovation Examples 182

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. “Part of the world’s most watched Social Media video series; “Social Media Revolution&# by Erik Qualman. Based on #1 International Best Selling Book Socialnomics by Erik Qualman. “

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Video Statistics 175

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

OCTOBER 17, 2020

A different paradigm emerged in the mid-1990s, as AI embraced a statistical approach based on analyzing large amounts of data with powerful computers and sophisticated algorithms.

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Data Statistics Training Overview 187

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 116

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. ” It’s based on research he conducted with post-doc Joo Hee Oh. Here’s the summary slide (the paper describing the research is not available yet; Erik will post it on his site when it is

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Statistics Research Conference 197

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

MARCH 13, 2021

A statistical model reckoned that in 700bc kosmos was frequently surrounded by ‘man’, ‘call’ and ‘marketplace’, a cluster suggesting ‘order’. Now she sees lots of humanities students ‘who are really keen to learn about programming and statistics’.”. What is meant by the liberal arts?

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Change Data Skills Statistics 196

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

MAY 29, 2021

I recently read Universal Resilience Patterns in Labor Markets , - an article published earlier this year in Nature Communications by members of MIT Connection Science and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development.

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Study Data Skills Statistics 172

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 78

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

MAY 22, 2021

25% of brands will achieve statistically significant advances in CX quality in 2021. Earlier this year, I attended Predictions 21 , an online event organized by Forrester Research to help companies understand the key business and technology dynamics that will shape 2021 and beyond.

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Technology Data Company Statistics 233

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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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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