Monthly Archives: May 2012

What data can and cannot do

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Nick Read

I can’t decide whether this article from the Guardian website is interesting or just a statement of the obvious. The conclusion is right though, or at least part of the answer: Interpreting data is not easy. Furthermore there is a … Continue reading →

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How not to calculate probability

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Nick Read

There’s a good example on the BBC News website today of one of the really common mistakes with calculating probability. The article says: Labour MP John McDonnell has defied odds estimated at 58,000 to 1 to top the annual Private … Continue reading →

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Building a capability in insight analytics (Part 4)

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Nick Read

For the final part of this series (at least for now) I want to add a bit of a discussion about how to get there. The first three parts were an attempt to summarise the main capabilities needed in an … Continue reading →

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Building a capability in insight analytics (Part 3)

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Nick Read

For Part 3 of my series of building an analytics capability I want to pick up on the idea of developing analytical services which was one of the six capabilities I discussed in Part 1. There are various established applications … Continue reading →

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Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief, has managed to amass more information about more people than anyone else in history.

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Nick Read

There’s an interesting piece in today’s New York Times on Facebook’s use of data. The value of the Facebook business seems to me to be a function of (a) the extraordinary volume of visitors (quantity, frequency, sheer length of visits, … Continue reading →

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Another article on building teams

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Nick Read

Some more interesting reading on building analytics team here. Actually a lot of the content here is about developing the Analytical Services that the team delivers, which is one of the capabilities in my framework that I’m planning to write … Continue reading →

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