I had a very interesting conversation with David Huffaker last week. David just finished his PhD in Media, Technology and Society at Northwestern University, which makes him an expert in social media analytics, an exciting relatively new field.
David has analyzed behavior on social networks such as Google groups to get a better understanding of [...]
Hats off to my Canadian colleagues have done a beautiful little film for the most recent Hellmann’s campaign. What a great way to make statistics come to life.
The movie can be found on the Canadian Eat Real, Eat Local site.
I am on vacation in Belgium this week to visit my family. Yesterday I took the train from Brussels to Antwerp, a commute I used to do daily when I worked in Brussels. I’d jump on in Antwerp and would usually have a seat. The 1st stop was Mechelen, where a big crowd would always [...]
Revolution Magazine brought out a list of the top mentioned brands on Twitter recently.
I mapped the companies on a scatterplot using Many Eyes (please be patient as this page can take time to load). There were a few outliers like Starbucks so I took the log of both the mentions and followers to make [...]
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a small post about Perceptive Pixel’s touch screens. I think they are still miles ahead of other players in that space and I have also heard their screens have become more affordable. However it looks like the next generation data user interface is already on the horizon. The [...]