I was wrong not to teach my statistics students programming

It’s been a good day. I had to drag myself away from PHPStorms to write this blog. I used phpMyAdmin to create the tables I needed, then wrote a few scripts in PHP to connect , insert records and execute queries. I used Dreamweaver and Textwrangler for the HTML. In a day or so, I’ll…

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Success isn’t what you expect – #12 of 55 things I’ve learned

This is number 12 of 55 things I have learned in almost 55 years, back by (believe it or not) popular demand. You can find #11, just accept that you can’t do everything, right here. I’ve had a fair bit of success lately, as well as in my life overall – made some money, published…

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A second look at social media and Kickstarter statistics

When our Kickstarter campaign first started, I questioned the impact of social media. Despite being tweeted out by my darling daughter #3, who had over 170,000 followers on twitter, equal numbers of backers came from direct links (that is, people I had emailed directly) and twitter. By the end of the campaign, we had 255…