Can’t we just have driverless cars already?
I’ve probably mentioned this before but I’m a huge fan of driverless cars. You give me the opportunity to buy one right now and I’d almost surely do it (I don’t know the price so …
Year: 2015
A Beautiful Introduction to Coding
With the new semester a few weeks away I’ve been going through last year’s notes. This usually results in a few articles/cases being added and some dropped (yes students, I do actually listen and respond to …
Big data meets transportation
FiveThirtyEight has a new podcast out called What’s the Point. It’s an interesting weekly podcast that all data nerds should listen to. I especially liked the episode on using an experiment and the resulting data …
538 on John Nash
This is a great obituary and summary of John Nash’s seminal research brought to you by the guys and gals over at FiveThirtyEight. My favorite part comes at the very end: “But his greatest accomplishment …
Ubering around India
WARNING: this post is completely different from all previous posts. Instead of sending you a link for something that I find interesting or smart I’m going to debrief the past couple of days using Uber as …
GE is getting back to its roots
GE announced today that they are selling off GE Capital. I like the idea of focusing on core competencies like industrial manufacturing and simplifying management. This is probably going to save the folks at the …
A winter without Vans
In my class on Design and Management of Supply Chains my students have to scour the interwebs for interesting articles that are in some way related to class. After finding the article to do a …
Fun with football analytics
I’ve been thinking a lot about analytics lately. This really stems from two rather large datasets I’m crunching (cool stuff – read the research section updates in a couple months). At the same time I’ve …
Is the customer really always right?
A friend of mine is a chef and runs a blog with some tremendous recipes. In addition to being a great place to stop by when looking for dinner ideas, John Vito tells fun stories …
Uber + Puppy Bowl = Heaven
Looks like Uber is at it again. Yesterday they gave the gift of playing with puppies to people in 10 cities throughout the US. Yes, they technically gave the gift of paying $30 for 15 minutes …