Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Desktop Analytics

Read this quote - (Measuring productivity, or the lack thereof, on the personal computer. "Desktop Analytics") on Google Reader feed of Data Sciences Analytics

Interesting. Not getting into the contents of the real post, I loved the statement. Its funny how many times I have tried to measure my desktop productivity. My desktop (or, laptop) time includes work, watching cartoons/animations/manga, reading comic books, reading blogs, reading general stuff, mailing, searching for tid-bits, playing games, etc etc. Amongst all this, I have no idea if my desktop productivity is 50% or less than that! Oh Yes! I would like to believe that I am terribly busy and am doing a lot of work, but the fact is that, ignoring the dependencies of a workplace, my productivity in the last several years would never have been more than 50%. On a really bad day, it might be 100%. But that would have to be really bad day!

All ye data folks out there, is there a way to capture this data? Any tool? I am sure the results are going to depress the hell out of me. BTW, this blog post - would it go under productive use or unproductive use? My guess is that its unproductive use, unless people find a skewed logic of calling it a break to refresh my decaying brain cells and hence, increasing my productivity. And a break is a part of a productive work day, isn't it?

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Communicating is required!

A very impressive experience based blogpost by Kevin. It rightly emphasizes the equal if not greater importance of communicating over crunching!
I guess its true not just in an internal vs. consultant kinda scenario, as Kevin mentions, but also in the case of a Manager-Analyst relationship. There are times when I have seen the Engagement Managers and above have a tough time with the team, because they want to hear a lot of things, but not just the numbers! ;)

Monday, June 4, 2007

My first white paper.. on rapid market segmentation.

My first ever White Paper is here titled Rapid Market Segmentation: Collaborate and Conquer

Download it from the link for a rapid reading. There are some related articles on Diamond's Analytics blog as well

Let me know what you think.