For anyone interested in data visualization, there had to be some level of satisfaction in seeing the controversy sparked by a chart tweeted out by Bill Gates. The chart, one of several in an infographic Gates included in a tweet was a fairly simple area chart, but the concept it was illustrating (or purporting to …
Category Archives: Trends
BIG DATA BASED METRICS ARE REPLACING TRADITIONAL MEASURES
The landscape for gathering information around public health and public opinion has seen some dramatic changes. Some of them are obvious, that Twitter reflects in real time virtually any event that is happening, for example. Some are less so because they involved an evolution from old to new. An example of the latter can be …
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SOCIAL MEDIA SENTIMENT MEASURED IN REAL-TIME
The trend watcher, Dan Burris, can usually be counted on for an observation that will cause a number of seemingly unrelated data points that have floated amorphously on your radar to coalesce into something concrete. Such was the case recently when he pointed out that “Social Analytics will increasingly be used by marketers and researchers …
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DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION GETS A CRITICAL LOOK
Among the advice I recently gave to a client as input to an innovation offsite was what seemed to me the almost too obvious: think in terms of sustaining versus disruptive innovation as advised by Clayton Christensen in The Innovator’s Dilemma. This concept has become de rigueur for any firm interested in competing through innovation. …
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BEWARE SOCIALBOTS
As if there were not enough landmines lurking in the social media environment, a news analysis in yesterday’s New York Times highlighted one of the less obvious but no less dangerous types. Socialbots, as the Times labels them, are programs intended to influence, for good or ill, the impact of social media for the benefit …
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