Dr. Brené Brown is the author of The Gifts of Imperfection. Her work uses qualitative research to explore the human connection. She dubs her qualitative research stories as “just data with a soul.” Her work references the descriptive rather than the numeric aspect of qualitative knowledge. She discusses the power of vulnerability in her The Power of Vulnerability TED Talk. Read More
Monthly Archives: December 2015
Every 24 hours, your heart beats approximately 100,000 times. No matter whether it was a day of triumph or defeat, discovery or pursuit, love or loss, you can count on relatively 100,000 reminders that you have embarked, once again, upon another chapter of the best story ever told – yours. In a year, that remarkable force will take 2.5 billion steps toward the future. So, though our hearts may, at times, yearn for the past or a present that never was, its beating drives us ever forward. And that is a journey that must be protected at all costs. Read More
It’s time for us to push the envelope as a data science community. We’ve proven our ability to find the most obscure of facts (e.g., humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas). We’ve uncovered patterns in untamable datasets that lead to ground-breaking insights. We’ve even learned how to predict the future.
