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Your cell phone data and frequent call list can shed light on network epidemiology A.K.A the spread of disease.
April 14, 2017

Using Cell Phone Data to Predict the Next Epidemic

Whom you call is linked to where you travel, which dictates how viruses spread.

Social media echo chambers form surprisingly fast.
April 6, 2017

The Surprising Speed with Which We Become Polarized Online

Users isolate themselves in social media echo chambers, even when they start out looking at a variety of posts.

A scientist interprets visual content through a telescope and sees data visualizations in the stars.
October 5, 2016

How to Use Data Visualization to Improve Your Business

Understanding how our minds read visualizations can help answer your organization’s most important questions.

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Airline passengers have individualized flying experiences.
September 13, 2016

Remaking Marketing Organizations for a Data-Driven World

A Q&A with United Airlines’ CMO on how to avoid becoming “an artifact of a prior era.”

Chicago's Open Data Portal helps improve operational efficiency.
June 20, 2016

How Open Data Is Changing Chicago

A Q&A with Chicago’s chief data officer about the power of big data.

Measuring the success of a digital advertising campaign.
March 11, 2016

Is Your Digital-Advertising Campaign Working?

If you are not running a randomized controlled experiment, you probably don’t know.

December 7, 2015

Blinded by Statistical Significance

Putting too much stock in an arbitrary threshold may lead to bad decisions.

Our mobile consumer behavior determines how we shop on phones.
December 7, 2015

How We Shop Differently on Our Phones

What’s in your cart? Depends on the device you are using.

Building an analytics team will help grow your business.
December 7, 2015

Tips for Building an Analytics Team

How to hire and keep data analytics superstars.

Data scientists are most fulfilled when contributing to company-wide decisions.
October 15, 2015

5 Ways to Attract and Retain Data Scientists

How directly contributing to the business can help analytics talent thrive.

Machine learning: people and machines working side by side.
July 6, 2015

Can Computers Make Us Better Thinkers?

IBM Watson creator David Ferrucci on the thought partnership at the heart of machine learning.

Data analytics leader sits moving a graph.
July 6, 2015

Making Data Work Harder for You— Podcast Transcript

A strategic approach to data analytics starts with asking the right questions.

May 1, 2015

Collaborating to Save Lives

For an integrated healthcare organization, culture is the key to operational efficiency.

data visualization technique best practices
May 1, 2015

Data Visualization: More Than Pretty Pictures

Data visualization techniques are integral to memorable and persuasive messaging.

Computational social science seeks to use data to uncover universal facts.
May 1, 2015

The Ultimate Data Set

Computational social science aims to discover universal facts.

Data analytics leader sits moving a graph.
May 1, 2015

A Leader's Guide to Data Analytics

A working knowledge of data science can help you lead with confidence.

Like in basketball, using data and information around you to call the shots can lead to a big wins.
February 2, 2015

Using Data to Call the Shots

Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey talks leadership, decision making, and crunching numbers in the NBA.

A police officer attempts stock market regulation.
January 5, 2015

What Will It Take to Regulate the Stock Markets?

Better data and better cooperation are needed.

This customer may be a harbinger of new product failure
May 5, 2014

The Customers You Do Not Want

If these “harbingers of failure” love what you do, you are in trouble

June 4, 2012

The Specifics of Sleep

Using statistics to understand sleep better

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