The life of an IPO-less entrepreneur is a curiosity, especially in difficult economic times. So when well-meaning folks ask “what is it like?”, I answer that while there’s great freedom in working on one’s own ideas, that’s counterbalanced by the realization that most of one’s ideas range from the merely unworkable to laughably money-losing. But […]
As a buzz-worthy term “Big Data” has a lot going for it: easy to remember, vague enough that a shared clear meaning is always in doubt, and its own O’Reilly conference. Like programmers describing the merits of their software only in terms of the number of lines of code, talking about big-ness merely in terms […]
For better or worse –ok, worse–CNN’s John King remains the popular face of choropleth mapping in the US for his election night wizardry. (Our friends across the pond definitely have the better of it with the BBC’s Emily Maitlis–I could watch this crisp analysis, touching on the areal unit problem even, for hours.) But with […]