Constraints, Poor Expectations, Trade Offs, Order Of Operations, and Feedback Loops — Netflix describes their 2020 Anime adaptation as “An aimless gamer and his two friends find themselves in a parallel Tokyo, where they’re forced to compete in a series of sadistic games to survive.” I would call it “just another day in the world of data & analytics” … metaphorically speaking…

Freeform Anthology Or Not… There Is A Lot To Learn Here — Don’t break your back creating a lesson, Morty. It’s a freeform anthology. I’m getting annoyed you’re not hearing that. — Rick Sanchez At the risk of annoying Rick, there is a lot you can learn from his freeform anthology. Each little story is packed with examples of analytic principles.

No One Is Saying Them … But They Really Should Be — There are two words you rarely hear mentioned in the halls of business analytics. One starts with a C and ends with a T. The other starts with an F and ends with K. Most analysts won’t mention them…

Because What We All Really Need Is More #PopularScience — Recently, I shared an article on Facebook. I was rewarded with that lovely (Fact-Check) tag above. A bit odd, I thought, given that I hadn’t shared a Breitbart article (not the sort of thing I would share) AND I had checked the validity of the article myself. I had…

Inspired By A Tale Of Two Internships — Years back I wrote an article detailing experiences I had with early interships. These included both those I had and those I managed. It was a solid article that you can get to via the link in the subtitle. I won’t repeat myself. I will also never say that any…

Hollywood Seems To Struggle With It — As is often the case, this article sits at cross roads of two topics on my mind. The first was — I should write a Creative Analytics article about Cobra Kai. That show rocks! I still may… The second was my recent commitment to revist my earliest articles, now over…

Few People Train At All — But That Is A Huge Advantage For The Rest Of Us — Five years ago, I asked the question: Are you training hard enough? Early this morning, thousands of aspiring professionals climbed out of bed and began a day of rigorous training. Some trained individually, others with coaches and trainers, and many at high-tech centers using advanced analytics. Their techniques were inspired or guided by decades of…

Let Me Rant A Second Time — I wrote two years ago about the final straw but recent events have broken the proverbial camel’s back. At a time when good science is more important than ever (that is the storyline, right?), comes an article that is neither unexpected nor very reassuring. Many scientists citing two scandalous COVID-19 papers ignore their retractions This story was supported by the Science Fund for Investigative Reporting. Please help Science pursue ambitious…www.sciencemag.org

…But also The Better and The Best — Often when popular media inspire an article, I put it in Creative Analytics. Those articles are lighter and more inspirational. This one is a bit deeper, if only in that it calls out something far too many people lose sight of. In other words — the movie is a hook…