Radiance Blog

If people find voluntary televisions polls are annoying, what are they thinking about your survey?  Be sure you’re asking good questions with a well-designed questionnaire, being respectful of participants’ time, and being as unobtrusive in executing the survey as possible.
From the Fail Blog.

Downtown Denver has become a Mecca for mobile restaurants.  Think tricked-out food truck (P. 16 of ColoradoBiz magazine, 08/10 issue).   These trucks are selling everything from cupcakes to biscuits and gourmet lunches.  The cupcake truck, who was affectionately named Clementine by her Facebook group, sports a large following (including our own resident foodie, Meredith).

Today I [...]

At Corona, we believe in measurables and benchmarks. So, it seems fitting that upon celebrating one of our Principal’s 10 year anniversary at Corona, she is locally recognized for her history of outstanding work in our community.
On June 29, Corona celebrated Karla’s 10 year anniversary with the firm! As the current CEO and Strategic Consulting [...]

A little Friday fun before the holiday weekend.
“I have two children. One is a boy born on a Tuesday. What is the probability I have two boys?”
Find the answer here (and yes, Tuesday is relevant) and learn more about the recent gathering of mathematical recreationalists, including mathematicians, magicians and “puzzle people”.

Ever feel like you have too much data to sift through?  That simple search results aren’t enough?  Or that that bar chart just doesn’t convey the big picture?
Enter Pivot.
As the Economist recently described in a special report, the amount of data we are creating is immense.  So much so that we can’t even store it [...]

We like math in its many forms.  We like visuals that tell interesting stories.  And we like this…

Thanks to PURE for their post.

We loved this webcomic from xkcd.
Now, if you also had some other people who also used to think that correlation implied causation, but they didn’t take a stats class …

We like baseball here at Corona.  Well, at least Leo, Dave and I like baseball. We enjoy the crack of the bat, the smell of the grass, and, because we’re data junkies, the mountains of statistics.
Baseball and statistics are inseparable.  There seems to be a stat for every aspect of the game from the classic [...]

It’s funny to me that, watching the Olympics, I suddenly feel as though I am an expert on whatever sport I happen to be watching, even though it’s usually something that I only really ever watch, oh, once every four years. Let’s take ice skating, for example. There is nothing about my interpretation of what [...]

We use numbers at Corona for all sorts of purposes…analyzing a business’s data, segmentation analysis, demographics…and the list goes on.
But for all the fun we have with numbers (not a typo), we always enjoy hearing the many other ways numbers impact our lives. What’s Benford’s Law? Do you have an Erdos number?
Check out [...]