Comments on: Statistics Is Sexy http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2009/08/09/statistics-is-sexy/ Economics of organizations, strategy, entrepreneurship, innovation, and more Sat, 26 May 2012 19:17:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Statistics is Sexy | Factonista http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2009/08/09/statistics-is-sexy/#comment-75193 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:59:15 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.com/?p=6545#comment-75193 [...] the title of the Organizations & Market post referencing this latest New York Times piece. We here in humanities land love to hear that our [...]

]]> By: Cliff Grammich http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2009/08/09/statistics-is-sexy/#comment-75188 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:05:31 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.com/?p=6545#comment-75188 That’s an excellent point, Rafe. I also wonder if it applies to typewriters (or even handwriting), word processors, and modern prose of all types.

Interesting article, Peter, and a theme Nathan Yau at flowingdata.com raises from time to time, but I just can’t see data becoming sexy, or eliciting much more than a MEGO reaction from most persons.

]]> By: Rafe http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2009/08/09/statistics-is-sexy/#comment-75187 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:04:04 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.com/?p=6545#comment-75187 One of the downsides of modern computers is the way they facilitate data mining. When you could only do one run of a regression model per day, feeding a deck of punched cards into the machine, you had to think about the questions you asked.

]]> By: michael webster http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2009/08/09/statistics-is-sexy/#comment-75183 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:32:37 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.com/?p=6545#comment-75183 A couple years ago, Hal Varian was saying economists who understood auction theory were going to be the next “rock stars”

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