One thing’s for sure — Chris Carey’s has an extensive background in the music industry, but not in the traditional sense. From analyzing music trends as a senior economist at PRS for Music, to working on music and media forecasting and running the big data team for EMI, Carey prides himself for being a music economist. […]

In a global world, brand campaigns are going for a more local approach. The key to success in foreign markets is contingent upon understanding the target audience’s population, culture, and competitors. Having been involved in numerous localized campaigns myself, I’ve seen companies continually make the same mistakes when it comes to customizing their product or […]

Sunday is Mother’s Day, which is as good a time as any to stop and give thanks to the moms who raised us all and enabled us to realize our dreams. And while motherhood is never anything but an exercise in sacrifice, it’s worthwhile remembering that the remarkable things mothers do for their children can […]

Buy Nora Ephron’s book, I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman, here.  I hate my purse. I absolutely hate it. If you’re one of those women who think there’s something great about purses, don’t even bother reading this because there will be nothing here for you. This is for women who hate […]

Big data has entered the public’s collective consciousness, and business leaders recognize its power. They know that it could improve their businesses, and help them make key decisions about their future. Sometimes, however, they don’t know where to start. Enter Datamaran, a strategic business intelligence software. It scans across millions of data points from publicly […]

If you were born at some point after 1976, and grew up in anything but the most unlikely of circumstances, there’s a good chance that an adult of some kind—a parent, a teacher, an aunt—told you that you should stop playing video games because they were really bad for your brain. Forgive these finger-waggers: there […]

When Leigh Drogen was working as a quantitative trader, he realized that there had to be a better way to predict which stocks would be profitable. The estimates from bank analysts, he knew, weren’t always accurate. So Drogen decided that he wanted to provide traders and investors, whether they did it as a hobby or […]

When the first dentist Simon Enever went to in the United States suggested he purchase a cheap electric toothbrush rather than a more expensive model, he decided to look into his options more carefully. As he began shopping around, he wasn’t pleased with the selection he found on the shelves. “As a designer, I saw […]