And, in what I hope is my last post on foreign policy realism for the day, I think there’s a general problem with the oft-elided distinction between descriptive and prescriptive realism. Descriptive ...

I was watching a short video by Babson College Prof. Thomas Davenport on the Harvard Business Review website recently and found it to be a good, simplified explanation of analytics. (Stop! Don't swipe ...

For more than a decade I have talked about only three types of analytics: descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive. This trinity of analytics variations has worked well for me, and many others use it ...

A review of An English Language Primer Focused on Sri Lanka (Especially for Tamil Readers) by Prof. S.R.H. Hoole. It is said that the first lexicographer Samuel Johnson ushered a new orientation to ...

While predictive analytics have been an ed tech buzzword in recent years, they are but a midpoint in the evolution of data analytics in higher education. What began as descriptive analytics, the ...

Actually, we didn’t say it. Bill Haefeli, in a way, did, in this recent cartoon, which caused one of our vigilant readers to take us to task thusly: I was surprised ...

The role of a marketer has changed dramatically over the past two decades. I’ve seen it firsthand, having led marketing teams at technology companies of varying sizes and stages of maturity, from a ...

A robot mounts a windshield on a Mercedes Benz A Class on the assembly line at the Daimler AG factory in Rastatt, southwestern Germany, on February 4, 2019. THOMAS KIENZLE/AFP/Getty Images I have to ...