statistics sample size activity

http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v12n2/smith.html

interesting links

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/16/technology/for-retailers-new-gmail-has-one-tab-too-many.html?_r=0

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/13/business/From-Netscape-to-Twitter.html?src=recg

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/14/technology/the-payday-at-twitter-many-were-waiting-for.html?src=recg

http://freakonomics.com/2009/01/02/whats-with-the-home-underdogs-in-the-nfl/

http://freakonomics.com/2013/09/11/the-laws-of-attraction/

optimizely and clicktale

optimizely
clicktale

2 website tools that i am eager to try out

click tale is expensive for a small business

accountable and proactive

the 2 most annoying words in the workplace

most often used by incompetent managers and executives

typically used by poor managers to blame others for their incompetence and/or stupidity and/or laziness

people who use these words don't actually do anything

truecrypt

truecrypt.org

10 quotes from moneyball

http://sportsanalyticsblog.com/articles/10-quotes-from-moneyball

my favorites:

2. a young player is not what he looks like or what might become but what he has done

6. bunts, stolen bases, hit and runs - they were mostly self-defeating and all had a common theme: fear of public humiliation

7. ... the technical man with his analytical magic should have risen to prominence in baseball management, just as he was rising to prominence on say wall street

8. maybe they were just lucky. or maybe they knew something other people didn't. maybe they were as they privately thought, becoming more efficient

9. in human behavior there is always uncertainty and risk. the goal of oakland was to minimize the risk

10. trading players wasn't any different from trading stocks and bonds. a trader with better information could make a killing and billy was certain he had better information.