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		<title>Think Like A Data Analyst &#8212; Act Like An Archaeologist</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake Zenger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has read this blog will probably find clues suggesting that I am a big Dan and Chip Heath fan (and by fan I mean “groupie”). I am also a big fan of Nathan Yau at Flowing Data.  He &#8230; <a href="http://zengeranalytics.wordpress.com/2010/11/08/think-like-a-data-analyst-act-like-an-archaeologist/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zengeranalytics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6144381&amp;post=320&amp;subd=zengeranalytics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Report from Integerated Care Forum (DMAA Conference)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake Zenger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am speaking to a group in Reno next week about ways to measure the efficacy of Wellness programming, and I recently had the opportunity to attend the Care Continuum Alliance (formerly Disease Management Association of America (DMAA)) in Washington &#8230; <a href="http://zengeranalytics.wordpress.com/2010/11/02/report-from-dmaa/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zengeranalytics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6144381&amp;post=317&amp;subd=zengeranalytics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Data Delivery Is Not an &#8220;All-You-Can-Eat&#8221; Buffet</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake Zenger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the brilliant idea recently to take my family to the “Old Country Buffet” for their All You Can Eat dinner buffet.  I remember going when I was younger and it was my Grandpa’s favorite place for a special &#8230; <a href="http://zengeranalytics.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/data-delivery-is-not-an-all-you-can-eat-buffet/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zengeranalytics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6144381&amp;post=304&amp;subd=zengeranalytics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Concrete Numbers: Dragging Data into the Everyday</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake Zenger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the risk of looking like a Dan and Chip Heath groupie, I liked their posting about data this month in Fast Company. To illustrate the importance of attaching data to specific experiences, they work on a statistic from the &#8230; <a href="http://zengeranalytics.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/concrete-numbers-dragging-data-into-the-everyday/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zengeranalytics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6144381&amp;post=275&amp;subd=zengeranalytics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exceptional Presentation:  &#8220;Let My Dataset Change You Mindset!&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake Zenger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written many times in this blog about how data, presented effectively, can change the way we see problems and think about solutions.  I found an exceptional example of this in a lecture given by Hans Rosling, a professor of &#8230; <a href="http://zengeranalytics.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/exceptional-presentation-let-my-dataset-change-you-mindset/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zengeranalytics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6144381&amp;post=257&amp;subd=zengeranalytics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Update from Health 2.0 &#8211; San Francisco</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake Zenger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dan West First a quick definition: what is Health 2.0? Wikipedia tells us that &#8220;Health 2.0 is the use of a specific set of Web tools (blogs, podcasts, tagging, search, wikis, etc) by actors in health care including doctors, &#8230; <a href="http://zengeranalytics.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/update-from-health-2-0-san-francisco/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zengeranalytics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6144381&amp;post=246&amp;subd=zengeranalytics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake Zenger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Health Plans have been agonizingly slow to take advantage of the vast amounts of data available to them. Admittedly, they have some valid excuses. The barriers put in place to protect patient privacy and a lack of consistent data standards &#8230; <a href="http://zengeranalytics.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/health-plans-and-data-mining/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zengeranalytics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6144381&amp;post=238&amp;subd=zengeranalytics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake Zenger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I learned long ago not to be too disappointed in myself when the editor returned my writing with more edited sentences that unedited sentences. After scoping the project, performing the necessary background research, getting through an initial draft, and agonizing &#8230; <a href="http://zengeranalytics.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/what-do-copy-editors-and-data-miners-have-in-common/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zengeranalytics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6144381&amp;post=232&amp;subd=zengeranalytics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wanted: Data Geek/Visual Designer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake Zenger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was motivated to get back to blogging by a recent post from Michael E. Driscoll.  (See his great mashup of scatter plots with Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe.) Driscoll takes a quote from a McKinsey Quarterly interview with Hal Varian, &#8230; <a href="http://zengeranalytics.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/wanted-data-geekvisual-designer/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zengeranalytics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6144381&amp;post=227&amp;subd=zengeranalytics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doing My Taxes and Fixing Health Care IT</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 02:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake Zenger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even with a good accountant, most of us consider tax-time brutal. It’s not only that paying our taxes hurts, but organizing the papers, filling out the confusing forms, and thinking through the financial events of the previous year—most of those &#8230; <a href="http://zengeranalytics.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/doing-my-taxes-and-fixing-health-care-it/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zengeranalytics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6144381&amp;post=223&amp;subd=zengeranalytics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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