Framing Big Data, part 2 of 2

Let us say you have Google or even Facebook – you have a billion users. It is almost impossible for Google and Facebook to understand whom their customers are. Intuition or even just like talking to some customers is going to give you an extremely biased view. You are going to basically base your entire Read More …

Lean Sales Process does not start at Plan or Build

Lean’s culture ties to PDCA or PDSA is exactly what limits Lean’s success in sales and marketing. I may even go out on a limb and say it will limit the success of the The Lean Startup’s Build-Measure-Learn methodology being applied effectively to sales and marketing. The reason is that these theories are based on Read More …

Framing Big Data, part 1 of 2

If you have two sets of researchers who are telling you contradictory things, and they have their own data sets to support it; how do you tell which one is believable and which one is junk. In Numbersense, what I try to do is to give people, as you say, a framework to start thinking Read More …

Can you manage uncertainty without a good grasp of numbers?

I asked Kaiser Fung this question in my previous podcast, Interpretations of Data. The short answer to that question was Statistics is not there to eliminate or to cure variability. Variability is something that’s out there that cannot be cured. What statistics does is to create a way for us to measure the degree of Read More …

Should we question Big Data?

Kaiser Fung is a professional statistician with over a decade of experience applying statistical methods to marketing and advertising businesses. His acclaimed blog, Junk Charts, pioneered the critical examination of data and graphics in the mass media. Kaiser is my guest next week on the podcast and this is an excerpt from it. Kaiser recently Read More …

Mediation and The Brain – The Facts

I wrote several blog posts early this week, Empathy is the Fundamental Principle of Understanding. and Hi-Octane Innovation for your Brain that discussed several uses of meditation. I said in one blog post: Few of us will argue over the power of meditation. It can prove beneficial by providing us clear thought and more energy. Read More …