As I jumped from room to room on Turntable.fm last night my eyes caught a glimpse of a rare room titled “AOKIxSOLREPUBLIC” . I clicked it with a fury. “Sorry due to fire codes you have been escorted out of the building” was the message I received, which was Turntable’s cute way of telling me that [...]
Tips For Launching Successful Mobile Apps
I recently spent some time looking at a lot of Free-To-Play Games data, mostly through App Data and App Annie, as well as played somewhere around 84 different games from the top games studios. This data is freely accessible but a pain to cobble together. Compiling all this market research took quite a bit of manual labor, but I learned a few things about this competitive market and thought it would be beneficial to my readers as well. Many of you are developers and might find these types of insights valuable, not only for developing games, but other applications as well. So here you go! My Forbes-like list of Top 5 Tips to Make your Game Successful:
Big Data is Useless Without Science
Today, companies have more customer data than they can handle. Like a digital version of the show Hoarders, companies try to keep every bit of detail for as long as possible with the hope that one day these useless bits can be turned into massive new revenue opportunities. Over the past five years, bright engineers have devised open-sourced solutions to store and process the data deluge. We now even have a “big data stack” — that is, a framework for commoditizing data.
A data experiment gone wrong
Sometimes projects do not go as planned. Unfortunately, the first project I wanted to showcase on this blog was the one that bit the dust. But I’ll share a post mortem on it anyways since the lessons were valuable. The Question: Do Southern states really listen to more country music? All good experiments start with a question. [...]
Today I launched FitLabs, my first web product
For the past few weeks, I’ve been working on a microISV (Independent Software Vendor) business called FitLabs. The goal of FitLabs is to measure your fitness. I’ve always been a workout fanatic. I’ve done sports all my life from Cross-country to Track and Field, Crew, Soccer, Basketball, and now CrossFit. When I joined CrossFit, I realized real quickly how data-intensive it was. I was given a binder and every day I wrote down the workout, the times, the reps, and the weights. But after a while, I really didn’t know how to make the best use of all my journaling and data.
30 Years Of Music Industry Change
Digital Music News has an interesting visualization of the changing climate of music sales. The statistics are astounding (yet not really surprising) to see. In 2002, CD sales were the overwhelming majority of music sales at 95.5% market share. Last year, they made up just 49.1%, having been eclipsed by the Digital Single (I-Tunes). Its [...]
Visualizing Geographic Data
Ask the people behind any popular web service and they will tell you that a large portion of their user base is located outside of the US. Web applications are increasingly being made with global audiences in mind, and therefore a need has arisen to represent that geospatial data. Visualizing geographic data can be a [...]
Does your transit time increase as your home price decreases?
If you’re sick of your morning and evening commutes, you may be wondering how close you can move to your work while living affordably. Of course, there are many other factors that go into choosing a place to live, but what if you can see the relationship between home price and transit time? One Bay [...]
Google’s Ngram Viewer Lets You Visualize Interesting Trends
I just discovered Google’s Ngram Viewer via David McCandless’ Information Is Beautiful blog. Its amazing. Well, and so is David’s blog. Google makes it easy to type in any time period to examine the ngrams calculated from all Google Books as they are scanned.
Essential Tools For A Data Scientist
We know that the need for data scientists is strong. But what exactly do you need to become a data scientist? When I look back over all the years I’ve been working in the sciences, the tools I have needed have varied depending on the data size.
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