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Confusion on Easter Sunday

Posted in analysis of behavior, anthropology, tagged , , , , , , , on April 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »

When I sit down to make sense of the world I often start with this question:
If beings from another galaxy were to show up on our planet on an anthropological mission, what would they think about all of this? What would they conclude?  How is it all connected? What patterns would they find?
All of This [...]

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Reality Mining a ‘thick web’: collective intelligence

Posted in analysis of behavior, business strategy, data mining, economics, media, online advertising, politics, social networks, traffic, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on December 4, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Data once was a signature, a number on a driver’s license or even a newspaper subscription. Now it is much more but less of what you are used to accounting for. Digital information is today recorded by all manner of sensors you are not aware of and don’t see the consequences of. The [...]

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Old Skool Just Got Schooled

Posted in economics, media, politics, tagged , , , on October 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »

No matter how you slice this election, old school political media plans just got schooled.
The Obama campaign altered national campaigning in a major way during this election.  Forget whether he wins or loses or whether you are this political part or that one, the fact is fundraising and political marketing is forever different.
Some key insights:

Logos [...]

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Counterfactual Obsession

Posted in analysis of behavior, language, media, politics, tagged , , , , on October 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

When was the last time you used a counterfactual statement? (for definition and examples check here.)
Most likely you dropped one within the last 24 hours.  Counterfactual history litters our sports, finance, media/technology, political and intellectual discourse constantly nowadays.
In Sports:

“If Michael Phelps didn’t win 8 golds, …”
“If LT played during the preason, the Chargers would be….”
….

In [...]

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Now you see it; now you don’t – Politics, reason and Jihad in Presidential debates!

Posted in analysis of behavior, business strategy, economics, information theory, media, politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 14, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Things are complicated out there. You may or may not be aware that your nervous system filters out the massive amount of data that your senses are exposed to. As a matter of conservation of energy (real and metaphorical) you are attending to very little of your environment based on your history and the current [...]

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But wait Dan Ariely, there’s more…

Posted in analysis of behavior, business strategy, economics, politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

We know that behavior is not simple but there are simple behavioral components that keep getting ignored. Relative to what we all experience in life like conflicts in the Dan Ariely remarks below and in a previous blog on this site.… we recognize his statements on habits, good and bad, etc.  Yet there is a second [...]

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2008 Campaign Data: Voting Records, Legislation, Book Preferences and more.

Posted in data mining, media, politics, tagged , , , , , , , on September 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

One thing that’s definitely different about this election than all those before is the amount of data we all have access to.
Here are some of the more clever and interesting resources for the data junkies out there:

Amazon’s Election Map based on what customers are buying: http://www.amazon.com/election2008
Real Clear Politics Polling Aggregation and Graphing: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html
FactCheck.org “Wire” [...]

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Death to Political Rants and Soaking in the Political Media Frenzy

Posted in analysis of behavior, media, politics, social networks, tagged , , , , , , , , on September 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Boy is it hard to avoid political rants lately.  At this point, the major campaigns are all rant. The blogs and news outlets are mostly all rant.
There is very little INFORMATION, POLICY and ARGUMENT for citizens to evaluate.
We can make simple suggestions as to why this is the political process but the real causes and [...]

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Questions and response to Kathleen Parker: The abortion gospel

Posted in analysis of behavior, politics, social networks, traffic, tagged , , , , , , , , on August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Kathleen Parker: The abortion gospel according to Pelosi is just wrong
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080828/OPINION/808280310/
…and various newspapers around the country on 8/29/08

So there are several questions to be considered and answered, if possible, initiated by your swirl around issues of abortion, law and woman’s rights, not the least of which is free speech. Consideration of these type questions [...]

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Glenn Beck Answers His Own Questions

Posted in media, politics, tagged , , , , on July 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Glenn Beck put out a commentary today that is really sadly apathetic. I get his argument,.  His conclusion is weak though.  
“But with more information, and more candidates than ever before, I find myself in some ways less interested. With no clear answer for what’s best for the country, part of me has a strong [...]

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