Radiance Blog

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 [...]

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 [...]

The 12 graphs of Christmas, as created through the social web.  A fitting cap to a year in which social media grew ever more important. See all twelve on Mashable.

It is refreshing to see simple, yet effective solutions in use. In my recent travels I ran across… Using flags to safely cross streets at designated crossings in Madison, WI.  No need for expensive stop lights and signals here. Employees at the Frankfurt, Germany airport using bikes to get around the huge airport.  Smaller, cheaper, [...]

Ah, two of my favorite things … BMWs and market research.  Glad to see the two working together in such harmony, as this article discusses: “The new BMW Z4 has been introduced to compete head-on with the two big biggest sellers in the UK premium roadster market – the Mercedes SLK and the Audi TT [...]

It’s been a while since our first Coronal Flares so here are more great links we’ve recently run across. Maximize your market research investment in a recession.  A little old now, but still relevant.  Ran across it as a result of our post here. Social Media Monitoring Tools. Just a few of the tools you [...]

Looking for something to do this Friday afternoon?  How about a quest to find the world’s largest prime number? Apparently 50,000 computers are already hard at work.  Join in here.