Data Science & Psychology Data Science applied to Values, Morals, Politics, & things that matter.

7May/13

Personality Types in Business: Conscientious CEOs & Open Technologists

Part of my job at Ranker is to talk to other companies about our data.  While people often talk about how “big data” is revolutionizing everything, the reality of the data marketplace is that it still largely revolves around sales, marketing, and advertising.  Huge infrastructures exist to make sure that the most optimal ad for [...]

25Apr/13

Big Data Stocks? Invest in Data, not in Tools.

I want to invest in “big data stocks”.  After all, everyone is saying that big data is the future of health care, education, government, business, and will literally change the world.  As someone who works with data both as an academic at USC and as the principal data scientist at Ranker, I am the type [...]

21Nov/12

On Mitt Romney and The X-Files

Those of you interested in political psychology and data science might enjoy my latest post on the Ranker Data Blog entitled Mitt Romney Should Have Advertised on the X-Files.  In it, I explore correlations between liking Mitt Romney and liking various TV Shows on lists on Ranker.com, replicating analyses which the Obama campaign purportedly conducted [...]