Amazingly, up until just a few months before release, the game didn’t have an economy.

Source: How The Witcher 3’s economy was saved by polynomial least squares | Ars Technica

 So you think you know all about analytics? Patting yourself on the back about your latest cross-channel attribution modeling and the terabytes of data you’ve successfully corralled into a database? Time for a little perspective — because there’s big data and then there’s BIG data. Source: WHICH 50 : This is what Big Data really looks like: CERN, the universe and everything

Using billions of consumer purchases, we analyze Uber’s growth and engagement since 2012.

Source: People Ride Uber More Than You Think

In 2007, right before the first iPhone launched, I asked Steve Jobs the obvious question: The design of the iPhone was based on discarding every physical interface element except for a touchscreen. Would users be willing to give up the then-dominant physical keypads for a soft keyboard?

His answer was brusque: “They’ll learn.”

Source: Technology, Serendipity and Society