Innovation

Predicting “Runs Created” in baseball

February 11, 2011
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In 2003 Neil Bonner published a series of articles on Ron Shandler’s Baseball HQ website on an alternative method of calculating Runs Created per Game (RC/G). Bonner claimed that his analysis showed there were only three significant elements that could be used to forecast RC/G.

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How newspapers can survive in the age of the Internet

November 12, 2009
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I have been mulling about whether or not I should renew my subscription to the Wall Street Journal. Don’t get me wrong, I think the WSJ is the best newspaper produced today. So, my dilemma has nothing to do with the quality of their product, my dilemma has to do with the cost.

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Opens Source Software and the White House

October 29, 2009

My take on all of this is that the White House made a solid decision in choosing Drupal. What I would love to see is for GSA to offer Drupal as a platform for agencies that need a robust CMS but don’t want to manage their own LAMP infrastructure. Along with Drupal if GSA would offer WordPress as a platform (with agencies having their own unique URL), that would be heaven. Hopefully, GSA CIO Casey Coleman is working on this platform as a services (PAAS).

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IdeaFactory and Government Innovation

October 12, 2009

It could have been a huge flop – and we were OK with that outcome. Our position all along was that the IdeaFactory was just an experiment. Fast forward two and a half years later, the IdeaFactory has become an ingrained program within TSA. As of September, we passed a notable milestone; the IdeaFactory has generated 10,000 ideas.

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