Why presenting at conferences can be good & I’m not a moron

My friend demanded. “Are you crazy?” (Only your real friends feel free to begin conversations this way.) “Why in the HELL are you doing five presentations at that conference? For free!  Can you even tell me how many presentations you’ve done in your life? No, you can’t, can you? It’s not like it’s going to…

Homer Simpson & Ketchup Packet Sex Meet World Statistics Day

Statistics is definitely in. In the last month I’ve gotten three invitations to “tech events” from organizations which will remain nameless on the grounds that I may want to do business with them some time in the current century. All of them wanted to do something with statistics. And apps. And social media. And whatever…

Ted x American Riviera: Thinking Different

I just got back from the Tedx American Riviera. The American Riviera (Riviera apparently being an ancient Indian word meaning “place with nice weather and scenery that is full of rich people”) was held in Santa Barbara. I liked the TED Talks I saw on youtube and Eric Greenspan had recommended it on Twitter, and…

Mucking about with data & making life better

We interrupt the prior rambling discussion of high performance computing for a new rambling discussion. A lot of things bother me – hate crimes, domestic violence, terrorism, drug-related crimes in Mexico, low college graduation rates of minority youth – well, it’s a very long list. When I was younger, so much younger than today ……..