Whilst we often talk about how statistics can always provide the answers people are looking for (hence the title of this post), there is another angle to consider – are the underlying numbers even accurate?
A few years ago, I published an infographic showing the history of SharePoint, to help decypher the different twists, turns and acquisitions that influenced what went into (and out of) SharePoint. (May get round to doing an update on that sometime…) A related product has also had a few twists and turns of its own [...]
Others have pondered whether one of the side effects of the blogging phenomena will be a challenge to traditional politics. I hope so. At times, it feels like the physical world is out of sync. Catching up on some reading today, I stumbled across a quote that neatly summed up what we could/should be doing… [...]
As a follow on to a previous post – Diluted information, this is a quick review of just two ideas within Stephen Few’s excellent book – Information Dashboard Design. Spark Lines Spark lines are an idea from Edward Tufte, author of books such as Envisioning Information. The concept of a spark line is simplicity itself [...]
It’s always funny when culture leads to misinterpreting a joke. Whilst chatting with someone during the SharePoint conference earlier this year, they muttered how BSM was an apt acronym for Business Scorecard Manager 2005. I wondered what on earth business scorecards had to do with the British School of Motoring before it dawned on me [...]
