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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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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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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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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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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Ross Dawson

AUGUST 7, 2013

The keynote provides a whistle-stop tour of the value of social media, beginning with statistics showing that New Zealand is a world leader in the use of social media and going on to provide a few select statistics that bring home the enormity of the impact of social media. Here are the statistics I provide (together with sources): * More than 1.7 Tomorrow I am giving the closing keynote at Oracle Cloud Day Auckland on The Power of Social Media. Below are my keynote slides.

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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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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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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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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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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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Steven Berlin Johnson

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

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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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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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Jane Hart

MARCH 22, 2011

– and also shared this infographic with key statistics. LinkedIn have just announced they have reached 100 million members worldwide. LinkedIn

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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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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 29, 2008

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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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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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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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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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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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David Gurteen

OCTOBER 27, 2015

By David Gurteen Here are three interesting Harris Poll statistics from an HBR article The Top Complaints from Employees About Their Leaders by Lou Solomon. Complaint 3: 52% of U.S. workers say leaders do not make the time to meet with them Complaint 4: 51% of U.S. workers say leaders refuse to talk subordinates Complaint 7: 36% of U.S. workers say leaders don't know employees names.

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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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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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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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Andy McAfee

MAY 30, 2013

The statistical toolkit is full of ways to extract the signal from the noise, even with pretty messy data. As I was getting ready for a panel discussion on big data a little while ago I tried to think of a concise (i.e.

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Steve Denning

DECEMBER 11, 2010

So here's another shot: the world's most beautiful statistics. Statistics come to life when Swedish academic superstar Hans Rosling graphically illustrates global development in 200 countries over the last 200 years in just 4 minutes.

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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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Irving Wladawsky-Berger

JULY 16, 2018

Baseball has long been a game of statistics, collecting and analyzing vast amounts of data going back to the founding of the MLB in the years following the Civil War. . We now have enough data to compare the performance of scouts versus more purely statistical approaches.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 8, 2015

I’ve been searching for a statistic I used to quote. According to Business Insider , readers of Capital in the Twenty-first Century made it through just 2.1% of the book on average, with the last highlighted section appearing on page 26.

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Ross Dawson

JULY 15, 2015

Sobering statistics for retailers. The latest results from IBM’s annual Smarter Consumer Study provide interesting insights.

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Andy McAfee

MARCH 12, 2014

The evidence is just too clear that it is, and that we see evidence of the second machine age everywhere, including in the statistics Two papers came out last year that examined important issues around jobs and wages. Both are in top journals.

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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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Charles Jennings

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

A decade ago the Corporate Executive Board published a report detailing the findings of a study into the role managers can play in employee development. By almost any standards the sample in this study was large – 8,500 cases drawn from 14 organisations across six industries in nine countries.

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Dave Snowden

MAY 13, 2017

I’d argue that senior executives, and certainly politicians, have too little knowledge of the nature of statistics to exercise judgement in what to believe in respect of what is presented to them.

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Nine Shift

JUNE 15, 2018

Here's the latest statistics: -Unemployment among women is its lowest in 60 years. So I get this email this week with the subject line, "Where are the Girls?" . The press release, from the Pittsburgh Aviation Institute - - which trains aviation mechanics, says that there is a huge retirement now of aviation mechanics and the solution (surprise) is filling the traditional male occupation with females. .

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Ross Dawson

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

An amazing statistic is that by end of 2011, 20 typical households will generate more Internet traffic than the entire Internet in 2008.

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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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Dan Pontefract

MARCH 3, 2014

I know, on average it pays less than what I currently earn — at least according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics — where the average salary is $55,940 and there is an increase of only 3% more writer roles expected to be posted by 2022.

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