Book Review

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As a data professional, I get excited about combining data in new ways and delivering insight that was previously not available.  As a consumer and user of technology, it is disturbing to know how my information is being used[read more]

What excites me about this book? It provides a way for us all to tap into the same game-changing ways of operating that leading companies like SAP, Proctor & Gamble, Ford and IBM use to drive market leading levels of innovation, growth and revenue. This is a great guide to how to run a business, large or small, in the era of social media. It is also a great read as a hedge against disruption yourself (you better read this book or you will get disrupted by those others who are reading the book).[read more]

Today’s book review is about The Value of Business Analytics – Identifying The Path to Profitability, from Evan Stubbs. I won’t keep any suspense: the book is excellent! It’s a must have for any person trying to apply analytics within a company. The book is published by Wiley/SAS, but don’t worry, there is no promotion of SAS...[read more]

This week business analytics guru Tom Davenport (author of Analytics at Work, 2010, and Competing on Analytics, 2007) published an article on the Harvard Business Review blog titled, “Even Small Data Can Improve Your Organization’s Judgment.” In this post he makes three points, all highly relevant to Business Discovery.[read more]

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Several applications are detailed: aviation safety, unsatisfied customers, credit scoring and process control among others. Whatever your field of application is, you will find useful examples in the book.[read more]

View this video to see why analytics and business intelligence projects can be like skiing through a mogul field! (fast changes of direction, radical failure, etc.). Lots of parallels between my vocation and my vacation? (groan).[read more]

I recently read the last book from James Taylor, Decision Management Systems: A Practical Guide to Using Business Rules and Predictive Analytics. As a data miner, I was interested by the subtitle of the book. Although, the book is really well written, I’m a bit disapointed regarding the content for someone in analytics. I was expecting...[read more]

My friend and colleague Phil Simon recently published a new book called The Age of the Platform. I know from conversations with Phil that his new book is a personal journey to explore a very large and significant topic for which Phil has a lot of passion:  how business technology must evolve to provide the value and functionality...[read more]

"Are you building a business case for further investments in business analytics? If so, the quarterly journal MIT Sloan Management Review, in collaboration with the IBM Institute for Business Value, recently published a research report called, 'Analytics: The Widening Divide.'”[read more]

The French also have their data miners and more particularly their data mining authors. Stéphane Tufféry is one of them.In 2008 he authored the book “Data Mining et Statistique Décisionnelle” which has been translated in English in 2011 (a huge work according to the size of the book – more than 680 pages – done by Rod Riesco). The...[read more]

"With this book, Jerome and Hafedh have written more than just a complete guide to ABRD. This book provides an introduction to business rules and to the ABRD methodology. It discusses key ABRD topics like rule harvesting (from elicitation to analysis) and rule prototyping and design."[read more]

"Marshall spends a fair bit of time defining influence and influencers and some tools for measuring and monitoring key members of your audience. The case studies are excellent and provide an important tactical view into rigor that is required to create and manage a successful social media monitoring strategy."[read more]

"For years computer security professionals have sought the best ways to dialog on incidents, and some great foundational work has been done in this area. This post reviews two key works I have found to be of special relevance to today’s cyber defenders."[read more]

Luis Torgo, interviewed on Data Mining Research, has recently published a book on data mining entitled “Data Mining with R, Learning with Case Studies”. The book starts with an Introduction to R. Nicely written, it explains concepts that are needed to use this programming language for data mining. The book is then divided in four case studies. Each case study introduces data mining concepts that are illustrated using R.[read more]

In the eighties - before I became a consultant and then founded the Data Governance Institute - I edited a literary magazine, worked in marketing/pr, taught college English, and wrote a novel. Hiassen was a constant voice… crazy characters, crazy situations, wonderful plots, to-die-for language. I loved how he wrote a good story that mixed ethics, ethos and empathy in with morality plays and outlandish mysteries.[read more]