Why keep data?
Not the best case study in the world, but a fun one:
I was bored at work seven years ago today. I can tell that because I was just looking through old emails and seven years ago today I was emailing Seb with an 'audit of recent text messages'.
Common BNP names
Since someone leaked the British National Party's membership list to the internet, I thought I'd take a look.
Here are some common first names:
And some common last names:
No surprises there then!
I couldn't find a Singh or Patel. Odd.
Misleading conclusions
I'm currently working on advertising strategy and someone just forwarded me a document arguing that when a major brand 'goes dark' on advertising for a long period, it significantly damages the brand.
1How to avoid supermarket waste
I saw another article today on how supermarkets waste too much fresh food. I thought I'd post a quick chart showing an easy way to reduce waste: buy more stuff!
Slow selling products lead to waste. They always will.
When you are lost, any map will do
I was playing around with a really cool and easy to use analysis tool for Excel, Analyse It. And I thought I'd show how easy it is by running an old data set through it. So here is some quick analysis of an old political campaign I worked on. Seriously, this took about 30 minutes total.
