Archive for October, 2014

This is your Brain on Big Data: A Review of “The Organized Mind”

Tuesday, October 21st, 2014

In the past few years, several fine books have been written by neuroscientists. In this blog I’ve reviewed those that are most useful and placed Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast & Slow at the top of the heap. I’ve now found its worthy companion: The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload. This […]

Performance Measurement

Friday, October 3rd, 2014

In my dashboard design course, which I taught most recently last week in Portland, Oregon, it is inevitable that participants ask for help in gathering requirements for a useful dashboard. An entire weeklong course could easily be dedicated to the process of interacting with people to determine what they should be monitoring on a dashboard […]