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Analytics that just work
A N A L Y T I C S T H A T J U S T W O R K S Analytics, business intelligence, and their predecessors have been full of promise since the evolution of the personal computer. And for the most part,...
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Darkhorse is a proud sponsor of Startup Edmonton’s Analytics Hackathon: an opportunity to show off your ability to analyze, decipher, and show linkages between complex datasets. Hockey, healthcare,...
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The whole BestOfAnalytics.com conference will be broadcast live, April 23rd to 25th. You can see the full program here and the stream is embedded below. <<This live stream is no longer...
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Payroll and Playoffs
The NHL playoffs are underway and so some visual analytics are in order. Inspired by Craig Robinson’s graphic for Major League Baseball, we’ve put together a chart that looks at the relationship...
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Darkhorse on Discovery Channel
As mentioned in a previous post, we’ve been working with the Oilers Analytics Group; putting our analytics skills to work trying to see if we can bring some new insights to the table. Now this work...
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Cursory Dashboard Principles
Last week I received an email from Bernard Lebelle, who is apparently updating his book on dashboarding in Excel and will be including screen shots of the three winning tools from Chandoo’s Excel...
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The Five Faces of Analytics
The chasm between Business and IT is well documented and has existed since the first punch-card mainframe dimmed the lights of MIT to solve the ballistic trajectory of WWII munitions. Since that time,...
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Breathing City
Inspired by John Nelson’s breathing earth and Conveyal’s aggregate-disser post, I wondered if I could make a breathing city. Manhattan looks somewhat lung-like, so it seemed natural. Should be a fun,...
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Pluck the Low-Hanging Fruit
This is part two in a series of articles about effective analytics implementation. The first part “The Five Faces of Analytics” explores the roles necessary to develop a successful analytics team. So...
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