The day before I started writing this, a tornado hit central Kentucky, touching down and then staying in contact with the ground for more than… Read More »DSC Weekly Digest 14 December 2021: Evolution and the Winds of Change
An Unevenly Distributed Future Once again, the specter of a new n-Cov-2 variant, in this case, omicron, is making its way around the world, like… Read More »DSC Weekly Digest 7 December 2021: Unevenly Distributed Futures
The harvest festival goes back millennia, almost to the dawn of agriculture itself. It is held after the barley and corn and rice have been… Read More »DSC Weekly Digest 30 November 2021: Season's Greetings
This morning, I downloaded an app that puts my vaccination record on my phone, including the two Covid-19 vaccinations I received earlier this year. What… Read More »DSC Weekly Digest 23 Nov 2021: Moving Towards Digital Identity
The Importance of Dimensional Modeling When I was in high school, I had a superb chemistry teacher, something I, unfortunately, failed to appreciate until long… Read More »DSC Weekly Digest 16 Nov 2021: The Importance of Dimensional Modeling
In the DSC November 2 editorial, I posed a question I’ve wondered about for a while. Why is it so hard to create a shared-reality… Read More »DSC Weekly Digest 9 November 2021: Standardizing the Metaverse
Why Are Metaverses So Hard To Build? Facebook has been in the news lately, possibly tied into attempting to change the narrative after October’s disastrous… Read More »DSC Weekly Digest 2 November 2021
When the Power Goes Out Seattle has a reputation for being rainy, though it’s actually drier than many other places that don’t have that reputation.… Read More »DSC Weekly Digest 26 October 2021
The Art of Model Making When I was in the seventh grade, our teacher took us on a field trip to see an architect as… Read More »DSC Weekly Digest 19 October 2021
Announcements Build statistical and analytical expertise as well as the management and leadership skills necessary to implement high-level, data-driven decisions in Northwesterns Online MS in… Read More »DSC Weekly Digest 12 October 2021
