The Case for a Data-Oriented Approach to Research and Writing
Making the case to quantify your book-related efforts as quickly as possible.
In 2011, my client SAS hired me to turn the best posts from its Data Roundtable blog into a proper book. At that point, I ran Motion Publishing. The book dropped in September of that year. 101 Lightbulb Moments in Data Management: Tales from the Data Roundtable was never going to be a best-seller, but its results pleased SAS. (My primary client contact sang my praises.) In today's post, I'll talk about how that experience informed Racket's unique, data-centric approach to researching, writing, and publishing non-fiction books.
Basically, everything.
Hello, Data
As the book's title implies, it contains 101 blog posts on the umbrella topic of data management. Within that broad category, however, I felt compelled to track a number of dimensions. They included:
