TR EMERITUS

Can data crunching tell you the best candidate for a job vacancy? Any established organisation will have a group of very successful people in it – employees who fit and perform outstandingly well. They are already there, and every day they generate hundreds of bits of data about the way they go about performing so well –... 

But first, a truism: if the public are not buying the product politicians are selling, no end of stunts and clever tricks or lies will convince voters to change their minds. Tan Kin Lian, Goh Meng Seng, s/o JBJ, Roy Ngerng, Tan Jee Say, M Ravi, New Citizen Han Hui Hui. Lina Chiam and, of course, Dr Chee, can testify to this... 

I wrote sometime back that the Chiams were really very petty people when they got real shirty about a photo of Chiam and Dr Chee. But Dr Chee deserves the “Mad Dog” tag by escalating the row into an attempted nuclear strike that turned out to misfire by calling a news conference where he distributed this document [...