16 2025 June
How To See Through a Manipulated Headline (A Retailwire Case Study)
One thing I often talk about in this newsletter is honing our media literacy. This week I found a perfect case study to illustrate how...
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11 2025 June
Why Boys Are Falling Behind In School (And How To Fix It)
American schools and kindergarten specifically are not designed for boys … But they should be. That’s the conclusion from a piece in the New York...
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06 2025 May
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: The Algorithm by Hilke Schellmann
Imagine a future where an algorithm reads everything from your facial expressions during an interview to everything you have ever shared on social media in...
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02 2024 October
Can Tech in Cars Make Us More Considerate or Better Drivers?
As part of our Olympics trip this summer, we made a side visit to Lyon and drove across the border to Switzerland. Driving in Europe,...
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06 2024 June
Why People Become Gamers … And How It’s Changing
Fandom recently released the latest edition of their annual Inside Gaming Report where they survey 5,000 “entertainment and gaming fans globally.” The data this year found that...
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24 2024 April
Why Amazon Is Filled with Garbage Ebooks and How They Could Fix It
An article from Vox this week explored why exactly Amazon is filled with so many garbage ebooks, and the answer is infuriatingly straightforward. AI makes it...
Read Now04 2024 March
Getting Ready For The Dynamic Pricing Future Of All Things
This week Wendy’s unintentionally stirred up some trouble as headlines popped up online that the fast-food chain was testing “surge pricing” similar to Uber where...
Read Now31 2024 January
How To Put Numbers in Context During an Election Year
I have bad news for all of us. The non-stop media coverage of politics has already started and it’s an election year here in the...
Read Now19 2023 December
Behind Netflix’s First-Ever Big Data Release and What We Watched In 2023
The Night Agent was the most popular show globally on Netflix over the past year and 30% of all viewing was non-English programming. 55% of...
Read Now07 2023 November
Do People Vote for Candidates Who Look Like Them?
There have been several studies in the past that found people tend to prefer going to doctors who share their same ethnic background. This doesn’t seem...
Read Now05 2023 October
The Binge Blanket and More Of The Year’s Best Data Visualizations
Every year the Data Visualization Society considers hundreds of entries to select its Information Is Beautiful Awards Shortlist winners. This year’s honorees include some fascinating...
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7-Eleven Japan Tests Palm Scanner to Check If You Are Eating Veggies
Radar speed scanners slow down drivers by showing them how fast they are going. The awareness creates the behavior change. Could the same idea shift how...
Read Now16 2022 September
New Global Study Reveals the Emojis That Make You More (Or Less) Attractive
Forget the best and worst pickup lines, now thanks to Adobe all single people have some data on the emojis to use (and which ones to avoid) when trying to appear more attractive.
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