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• The King Report: No, Retail Sales Did Not Improve in November

  
  The Big Picture — Authority: 149
  > ~~~ How can US beancounters report twice the expected retail sales when all private data and state tax data shows that November had tepid if not soft retail sales – even with the easy y/y comparisons? FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2009, AT 8:30 A.M. EST ADVANCE MONTHLY SALES FOR RETAIL AND ...
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• A cautionary tale: Where numbers come from

  
  Thoughts About K4D — Authority: 134
  Megan Carpentier posted on AirAmerica suggesting that the magic number 30 appears much more frequently than one would expect in reports of collateral damage of air strikes in Afghanistan. She attributes that to a rule that field commanders are required to obtain Washington permission for an air strike that would have ...
  3 days ago

• The Relationship Between Age, Usage, and 3FG%

  
  Basketball Geek — Authority: 477
  In my last two posts I have taken a look at modeling a player’s 3FG% based on their age , and I’ve also estimated the relationship between usage and 3FG% . In this post I would like to bring these two topics together and estimate the relationship between age, usage, and 3FG%. The Data To put this data set ...
  4 days ago

• The Tradeoff Between Usage and 3FG%

  
  Basketball Geek — Authority: 477
  My last post on the relationship between age and 3FG% , Brian Tung brought up a topic that I’ve wanted to look at: … I’m not even sure that history is necessarily a good guide here, as players shoot those treys under fairly different circumstances at different stages of their careers. Who’s to say that ...
  5 days ago

• Career Outlook for Business Intelligence (BI) or Data Warehousing (DW)

  
  IT Career Coach — Authority: 115
  Competing on Analytics Microsoft NET Developers are well compensated IT professionals because the workplace demand for skilled Microsoft .NET programmers outstrips the supply. On the other hand, being a Microsoft .NET programmer can be tough because of the constant pressure to keep up with new ...
  6 days ago

• Whoops! Japan Overstated GDP by 300%

  
  The Big Picture — Authority: 149
  Wow, quite the cock up : The initial estimate of Japanese economic growth of 4.8% original was revised to 1.3%.  That is a revision that would do the US statisticians and record-keepers proud! Bloomberg “Japan’s economy expanded less than a third of the pace initially reported in the three months to September ...
  6 days ago

• Estimating the Impact of Aging on 3FG%

  
  Basketball Geek — Authority: 477
  The impact of aging on player performance interests me, but I haven’t really done anything useful in this area. Baseball’s recent debate (really fantastic stuff) on the topic of player aging curves has motivated me to take a closer look at the affect of aging on 3pt shooting. Ed Küpfer’s three year old ...
  6 days ago

• What is a Z-Score?

  
  Fair Loan Rate! — Authority: 138
  As one of the common indicators used to measure the stability of a business , the difference between the value of the company and the average value of companies of similar size and functioning as part of the same industry is measured by the z-score. Z-score is sometimes also referred to as a standard score, the ...
  1 week ago

• Estimating Individual Impact on Defensive Efficiency

  
  Basketball Geek — Authority: 477
  Earlier this week in @johnschuhmann ’s excellent column The Numbers Game , John looks at how Andre Miller impacts defensive efficiency. This, along with @kpelton ’s note that “the Blazers have been more effective defensively when Joel Przybilla is playing than when Greg Oden is playing” ( from ...
  1 week ago

• ClimateGate as Rorschach Test

  
  Gulag Blog — Authority: 170
  In the 10 days since we first blogged about “ClimateGate” – the unauthorized release of e-mails and other material from the Climate Research Unit (C.R.U.) at East Anglia University in Norwich, England – it’s become strikingly clear that one’s view of the issue is deeply colored by his or her incoming ...
  1 week ago

• ClimateGate as Rorschach Test

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 170
  In the 10 days since we first blogged about “ClimateGate” – the unauthorized release of e-mails and other material from the Climate Research Unit (C.R.U.) at East Anglia University in Norwich, England – it’s become strikingly clear that one’s view of the issue is deeply colored by his or her incoming ...
  1 week ago

• ClimateGate as Rorschach Test

  
  Freakonomics — Authority: 714
  In the 10 days since we first blogged about "ClimateGate" - the unauthorized release of e-mails and other material from the Climate Research Unit (C.R.U.) at East Anglia University in Norwich, England - its become strikingly clear that ones view of the issue is deeply colored by his or her incoming biases. No surprise ...
  1 week ago

• Data Applied Crunches Business Data On-Premise and In The Cloud

  
  Press About — Authority: 458
  Data Applied, a provider of Business Intelligence and Data Mining solutions, announces the launch of a revolutionary Web-based Data Mining solution. The solution offers a wide array of data analysis and visualization techniques, designed to extract valuable knowledge from raw data. Example of applications include ...
  2 weeks ago

• I’ll be going to FloCon this year – are you?

  
  Jack Whitsitt: Art and Security in Washington, DC — Authority: 103
  In a bit of fun and interesting timing it turns out I’ll be going to flocon in New Orleans this January. Since I’ve spent the past 2-3 years doing business risk and security architecture, national sector level strategy, policy, etc….but now find myself getting into the technical details of building a CERT ( ...
  2 weeks ago

• Careers in Wind Farm Development: Wind Energy Analyst

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 649
  This is the third article in a seven part series on careers in wind farm development. The first, second, and third parts can be viewed here.Meteorological towers provide a large quantity of raw data, which needs to be analyzed to assess the wind resources of a site. Desired information is frequently extrapolated from ...
  2 weeks ago

• In Stock! Bad Holiday Sales Forecasts

  
  The Big Picture — Authority: 710
  One of the items that never seems to go out of style is the annual holiday sales forecast. Mix one part survey, one part “foot traffic” analysis, and an (un)healthy dollop of optimistic trade group spin, and the result is a cheery annual forecast. As the WSJ noted, “A postmortem of seven leading forecasters’ ...
  2 weeks ago

• We Don’t Know How Black Friday Sales Were Yet

  
  The Big Picture — Authority: 710
  Today, the WSJ ran this patently incorrect headline: Black Friday Spending Rose Slightly Preliminary sales data showed shoppers spent $10.66 billion on Black Friday. That’s 0.5% more than last year. The figures were compiled by ShopperTrak RCT Corp., a Chicago research firm that tracks sales at more than 50,000 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Reading the 9/11 Wikileaks is a Little Like Reading a Twitter Timeline

  
  The SiliconANGLE — Authority: 144
  It’s been a sobering morning – after a late night of plotting out the posts to cover the Thanksgiving holidays (so I can actually take a day of), I woke up late this morning to the news of the Wikileaks release of the nation’s 9/11/01 pager and text records . I read through the various tech press coverage, ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Possibilities in Cognition Enhancement for Schizophrenia

  
  Lancashire Care Library and Information Service — Authority: 144
  New Possibilities in Cognition Enhancement for Schizophrenia,    Michael F Green . The American Journal of Psychiatry. 2009. Vol. 166, Iss. 7; p. 749 (4 pages) Abstract: Cognitive remediation for schizophrenia and other mental disorders can be divided into two distinctly different approaches. ...
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• 8 Important Components Of Currency Trading

  
  Currency Forex Trading Blog — Authority: 155
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  3 weeks ago

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