When Lee Sherman ran marketing content at Mint, he crossed a line most organizations won't dare to. He mentioned a competitor. Oh, no! It's one thing for a boss to say "you build trust by showing trust." That sure sounds good coming from a … [Continue reading] about Content marketing / Building trust with trust
Data driven but wabi-sabi driven, too
The get "smart" these days, city leaders usually beef themselves up with a network of sensors. They become a city of things, wired and tuned. Unfortunately, that alone doesn't make a city a nice place to be. For that, you also need … [Continue reading] about Data driven but wabi-sabi driven, too
Who needs data literacy when you’ve got data pictures? / Tableau
While Qlik was waking up to data literacy, Tableau wants you to know it's been there all the time. Just look over at Tableau Public. That free platform has served more than 300,000 authors creating over 10,000 new visualization per week. Last … [Continue reading] about Who needs data literacy when you’ve got data pictures? / Tableau
Cities / Too much “smart” can make you dumb
Richard Sennett's new book, Buildings and Dwellings, has a new variety of ambivalence about so-called "smart cities." It's one I hadn't heard. From the Los Angeles Review of Books' review: Referring to smart cities that use … [Continue reading] about Cities / Too much “smart” can make you dumb
Dave Wells on data literacy
Few people in the data industry today are better qualified to opine on data literacy than Dave Wells. He's had a decades-long career with data, including TDWI education director for eight years, now the education director at eLearningCurve, … [Continue reading] about Dave Wells on data literacy