Metric Junkie: A Useful Insight
Do Amazon book ranks tell us anything? Sure, they convey something about the popularity of a given book, but looking a the current rank of a book on Amazon is just a snapshot of a fairly volatile...
View ArticlePulse: The new book
My next book – Pulse: The New Science of Harnessing Internet Buzz to Track Threats and Opportunities – is on track to come out in April. We are just going the edit process for the manuscript. This...
View ArticleThe Zurich Risk Management Paper
Back in September of 2010, I had the honor of speaking at the Zurich annual Supply Chain Risk Management Conference in Lucerne, Switzerland. As much fun as the event was, I was equally honored when...
View ArticlePulse is hitting the shelves
My new book, Pulse: The New Science of Harnessing Internet Buzz to Track Threats and Opportunities, just came in the mail. Amazon says it is available now and it should be on bookstore shelves in a...
View ArticleAmazon’s email blast for Pulse
Amazon just sent out its email blast for my next book Pulse: The New Science of Harnessing Internet Buzz to Track Threats and Opportunities. If you get those, you know what I mean (e.g., “If you like...
View ArticleDuct Tape Marketing Interview/Podcast
The people at Duct Tape Marketing interviewed me for my book Pulse: The New Science of Harnessing Internet Buzz to Track Threats and Opportunities. You can find a short summary and the podcast itself...
View ArticleSecond Edition HTMA #1 in Statistics
Who really knows what drives Amazon’s decisions about how books should be categorized? Not me. The first edition of How to Measure Anything was categorized on Amazon as “math for business” and it was...
View ArticleBuzz on the 2nd Edition of HTMA causes Wiley to accelerate release
Wiley has decided to accelerate the release of the second edition of How to Measure Anything. Instead of being released in May, it will be shipped to warehouses this month and ready for sale in early...
View ArticleTim Peter for Marketing
I talked to someone who has both a vision as well as an impressive track record for marketing. Tim Peter (www.timpeter.com) describes his services on his website as “proven solutions to improve your...
View ArticleThe American Statistician Presents the Most Important Improvement to...
Science, we have a problem. Several problems, actually. Now we have solutions. A central tenant of modern science is that experiments must be reproducible. It turns out that a surprisingly large...
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