“Outliers” are not politicians who lie even more than other politicians. It is a term used by statisticians to describe some data that are far away from the average - data on 7-foot women or freezing ...

In my previous column, I looked at a common problem faced by business leaders today–the wide range of employee behaviors and the potential impact on company culture. All managers have to contend with ...

Identifying and dealing with outliers is an important part of data analysis. A new visualization, the O3 plot, is introduced to aid in the display and understanding of patterns of multivariate ...

This post written by entrepreneur and philanthropist Naveen Jain. He is the founder of World Innovation Institute, Moon Express, iNome and Infospace. Naveen is a trustee of Singularity University and ...

When we co-reviewed Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point for Slate in 2000, we agreed his book had much to say about networking and influence but not enough about the inherent quality that ...