Tiago Doria

From Statistics vs Data Science vs BI.

Thu, 16 May 2013 17:22:00 -0300

From Statistics vs Data Science vs BI.

There is a tiny public library near my house. Take a book, leave...

Tue, 14 May 2013 19:01:38 -0300

There is a tiny public library near my house.

Take a book, leave a book! :)

People watch TV online primarily for three reasons: 1. They want to catch-up on a show they...

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:56:12 -0300

People watch TV online primarily for three reasons:

1. They want to catch-up on a show they missed in broadcast.

2. They want to watch something they haven’t seen on TV before.

3. They want to repeat a show they’ve already seen on broadcast TV.

Repeat viewers comprise a small segment of the online audience, with 30% of respondents in an ABC study saying that they had gone online to re-watch an episode they’d already seen on TV.6 Similarly, nearly 40% of viewers used ABC.com to watch a re-watch an episode after seeing it on TV.

— Sheila Seles (from MIT Media Lab) in It’s (not) the end of TV as we know it.

"Yes, to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology"

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:53:00 -0300

“Yes, to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology”

- Thomas Edison, creator of electric light bulb, when asked by a reporter where he would send his sons to college.

Photo

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:58:36 -0300

Photo

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:03:44 -0300

“Boston is a tough and resilient town. So are its people....

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 22:00:00 -0300

“Boston is a tough and resilient town. So are its people. I’m supremely confident that Bostonians will pull together, take care of each other, and move forward as one proud city”.

Barack Obama

Yancey Strickler, cofounder of Kickstarter, at MIT Media Lab

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 22:32:43 -0300

Yancey Strickler, cofounder of Kickstarter, at MIT Media Lab

Boston!

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 19:50:38 -0300

Boston!

Lunch with Brian McGrory, editor of The Boston Globe

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 19:43:00 -0300

This week, we had lunch with Brian McGrory, editor of The Boston Globe. The event was part of Civic Media Lunch at MIT Media Lab. McGrory talked about the evolution of news in the digital age. I like attending this kind of event because I can meet others MIT students.

Here are some of my highlights:

- A good story is necessary to have a readership in digital and print business

- Newspapers need to expand their expertise to other areas (events, courses, lectures etc).

- Legacy newspapers become more relevant with digital. They are no longer tied to a single platform. They are now device platform.

- Boston is an unusual moment. The city is emerging from the recession. Boston Globe have to cover well the emerging economy in the city - biotech, healthcare in hospital and higher education.

- Boston Globe is trying to make money with the content, experience and platform (there are mobile billboards in the newspaper’s trucks - distribution platform).

- Content partnerships are important for the newspaper’s future (partnerships with blogs, university newspapers, citizen journalism websites). Through these partnerships, you can cover areas that would be impossible to cover alone.

- Actually, in the digital age, the problem of American newspapers is not about money (Boston Globe is cash-positive). It is about relevance. How to stay relevant in a hypercompetitive market? In US, legacy newspapers have to deal with the competitiveness of blogs and born-digital publications.

"Measurement is important, but one of the great fallacies of modern management is that everything..."

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 11:50:00 -0400

“Measurement is important, but one of the great fallacies of modern management is that everything that matters must be measured and that if something cannot be objectively measured, it does not matter. This is evidence of our analytical intelligence run amok”

- John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, in Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business (2013)

mcheung: The MIT Institvte-Wide Snowball Fight of 2013

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:20:27 -0400

mcheung:

The MIT Institvte-Wide Snowball Fight of 2013

"Investors, labor, management, suppliers - they all need to cooperate to create value for customers...."

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 09:22:00 -0400

“Investors, labor, management, suppliers - they all need to cooperate to create value for customers. If they do, the joint value created is divided fairly among the creators of the value through competitive market processes based approximately on the overall contribution each stakeholder makes. In other words, business is not a zero-sum game with a winner and a loser. It is a win, win, win, win game - and I really like that.”

- John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, in Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business (2013)

"We prefer knowing to thinking because knowing has more immediate value. It keeps us in the loop,..."

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:40:40 -0400

““We prefer knowing to thinking because knowing has more immediate value. It keeps us in the loop, keeps us connected to our friends and our cohort. Ideas are too airy, too impractical, too much work for too little reward. Few talk ideas. Everyone talks information, usually personal information. Where are you going? What are you doing? Whom are you seeing? These are today’s big questions.””

- Neal Glaber, in The Elusive Big Idea.

The definitive guide to the introverted

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 07:20:00 -0400

futurenauts:

Are you an introverted person? If so, then you will definitely find a lot of truth in Dr. Carmella’s Guide to Understanding the Introverted, which was originally posted by starbug.. If you are extroverted, on the other hand, this guide might come in handy to improve your understanding of your introverted friends.

Image taken from star bug’s soup: http://starbug.soup.io/post/254160567/

By the way, I read an excellent book about introverts - Quiet by Susan Cain.

The following excerpts are segments that I thought it would be nice to share:

Probably the most common and damaging misunderstanding about personality type is that introverts are antisocial and extroverts are pro-social. But as weve seen, neither formulation is correct; introverts and extroverts are differently social.

(…) Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. They tend to dislike conflict. Many have a horror of small talk, but enjoy deep discussions.

Startup Visas

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:43:14 -0400

Startup Visas:

In a major address on immigration policy in Las Vegas, Obama touted the need for a “startup visa” that allows immigrants who found startups to live in the United States as long as they raise a minimum level of financing and employ a certain number of workers. They could “remain permanently” in the country if their startups continue to grow, he said.

“Right now there are brilliant students from all around the world sitting in classrooms at our top universities,” Obama said. “They are earning degrees in the fields of the future like engineering and computer science. But once they finish school, once they earn that diploma, there’s a good chance they’ll have to leave our country.”

Apple for professional users

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 08:09:00 -0400

It’s interesting to see Apple doing things for professional users (iPad 128GB).

Nowadays, people talk a lot about the problem of cannibalization of Apple products. If there is something that Apple is not afraid, is the cannibalization.

From the beginning, Apple follows the mantra -“If you don’t cannibalize yourself, someone else will”. So it’s normal to see: iPad cannibalizes Macbook sales or iPhone cannibalizes iPod sales. Maybe iPad (128GB) will cannibalize Macbook Air sales for professional users. Maybe…

Apple is a technology company with very specific strategies.

Facebook Graph Search Is Boring: We Need A Unified Search AI

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:51:00 -0400

Facebook Graph Search Is Boring: We Need A Unified Search AI:

The way I see it, there are three companies offering rudimentary artificial intelligence to consumers at a grand scale: Google, Apple, and now Facebook (…)

WHEN I GET OFF AFTER AN HOUR ON THE B TRAIN

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 06:43:24 -0400

thembtaruinedmylife:

“But to maximize the massive effect technology can have,...

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 06:39:00 -0400

“But to maximize the massive effect technology can have, you need a network of efforts, a system of interventions, supported by citizens who share social capital. That’s what drives substantial progress sustainably. There is no silver bullet to ending extreme poverty and disease, no magic technology. That takes commitment, a lifetime of it, plus resources, political will, and people standing up to demand it. Technology provides the means, however”.

Bono Vox in MIT Technology Review January/February 2013