I have been pretty obsessed with a little side project over the last couple of weeks which explains why activity on the left column on this blog has been low … . It all started about a month ago when a colleague in London told me about the Korg drum computer app on the [...]
It’s official, it was on the front page of the NY Times yesterday : Statisticians are hot. Google claims they have the sexiest jobs in the world and IBM is planning on hiring 4,000 of them. They will have the pleasure to mine the enormous amounts of data that are being generated every day in [...]
I was cleaning up my office yesterday when I stumbled across a little book called Why Yesterday Tells of Tomorrow, by Helmut Gaus. A friend gave it to me years ago and I smiled when I saw the cover again. I remembered it showed some of the most creative (some would say outrageous) data correlations [...]