Just a quick note to journalists covering the #MuslimBan: You are letting the day-to-day minutia distract you from the real story.
Here is a weird little thing to think about. How big is the New York City really? How big is any city?
Well, we could take out a map and measure the geographic space that it occupies. This will tell you that New York City…
Earlier this week, Jessica Guynn, Silicon Valley reporter from USA Today tweeted:
The big news today, of course, is that Hillary Rodham Clinton has been nominated for President by the Democrats. This marks the first time in US history that a major political party has a female leader. And it welcomes the US into…
The always amazing Derek Muller, from Veritasium, recently published a great explainer video about how we are all susceptible to “cognitive ease”.
Cognitive ease is the concept of which when you hear something repeatedly, your brain…
As a media analyst, one problem I often come across is this sheer animosity from journalists towards data and analytics.
One reason is due to fear. For instance, a while back I was asked: “How can editors survive in the future of data?”…
One of the things I constantly have to struggle with as a media analyst is the culture that exists in media companies to lie to their readers to make something more exciting than it really is.
There seems to be an infinite number of different ways to calculate churn rate, the rate at which you lose your customers. And yet it’s one of the most important metrics that we have.
