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Analytic Applications are Built by Data Scientists

February 2, 2012 by David Smith
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Ventana Research analyst David Menninger was on the judging panel for the Applications of R in Business contest. In a post on the Ventana research blog, he offers his perspectives on the contest, noting that R, as a statistical package, includes... [read more]

Big Data Analytics a Key Enabler for Social CRM – Airlines Case Study

February 3, 2012 by Harish Kotadia, Ph.D.
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Here’s a simple yet very effective example of using analytics for understanding consumer attitudes towards airlines in real time. In this study, Jeffrey Breen has used the R programming language to analyze consumer sentiments about major U.S. airlines expressed on Twitter. [read more]

Christmas 2011: a Great Example of Smarter Commerce in Action

February 3, 2012 by Brent Leary
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This is a great example of customers understanding what technology can do, and expecting vendors to find ways to leverage it to continuously improve their shopping experience. And improving the experience is crucial to keeping customers satisfied. According to the ForeSee study, satisfaction scores are important because a one-point change in website satisfaction can predict a 14% change in revenues generated on the web. [read more]

The Connected Evolution

February 3, 2012 by Maggie Fox
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Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in January provided preview of the new direction of major electronics manufacturers, and how they plan to design devices that not only provide value by leveraging smart capabilities, but also solve problems in an intuitive way. According to the GSMA, 90% of TVs at CES, 70% of automotive devices, 44% of health devices, and 30% of cameras were Internet connected. [read more]

Register for the first Decision Management Systems Platform Report Webinar

February 3, 2012 by James Taylor
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The first webinar from my ongoing research into Decision Management Systems Platforms is coming up on February 16th at 10am PT – register here  for Four platform capabilities for Decision Management Systems. This webinar kicks off what will be a continuing series of webinars as our definitive report on Decision Management... [read more]

R Chart featured in Facebook IPO

February 2, 2012 by David Smith
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Page 7 of Facebook's 213-page S-1 filing for their record-breaking IPO includes this chart, under the headline: "Our Mission: To make the world more open and connected". [read more]

Products + Social = Better Products

February 2, 2012 by Timo Elliott
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In this post, I’d like to share some ideas about why I believe that there are now fantastic new opportunities to improve all kinds of products using social media techniques. [read more]

A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors: The flying robot video you absolutely must watch

February 2, 2012 by Bob Gourley
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As a technologist I would like to remind you all that every future use case for incredibly capable systems like this will involve IT with moving parts, and all IT with moving parts requires IT guys to fix them when they break. So guess what CIOs, increasingly you are going to be the person that is turned to for robot repair. [read more]

Technology Terminology: What’s in a Name?

February 1, 2012 by David Menninger
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Having spent a large portion of my career developing and marketing software products, I am probably biased, but I see value in broad, easily understood – even if imprecise – terms. Such terms are inclusive rather than exclusive, and that allows more vendors to participate in the markets, prompting more competition, more debate and ultimately better products and more variety of products. [read more]

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It Takes Courage to Compete on Analytics

February 1, 2012 by Paul Barsch
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For today’s analytical professionals, “competing on analytics” is taking hold as more companies understand they’re sitting on literal goldmines of structured and multi-structured data just begging for analysis. But analytics users be forewarned, there’s still plenty of “old guard” that will put up roadblocks, enlist subterfuge and even openly mock your data driven approaches. [read more]

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It's a Bird! It's a Plane! No, It's Just a Data Scientist.

February 1, 2012 by Meta S. Brown
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What happens when you saddle one person with the work of three? Often, none of the work is done well, even when that one person is capable and conscientious. The human body has only so much stamina. [read more]

Google+ Is Like 401K For Search

February 1, 2012 by Matthew Hurst
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I'm trying to figure out which camera to go for: the GoPro or the Contour. When I search on Google for help in finding some way to compare, it was suggested to me to ask on Google+: I then waited for someone to answer. I got nothing. Of course, I'm sure if I had the right set of connections I would have found a sweet expert opinion that... [read more]

SAS BI Dashboard Rocks My Google Analytics Data Analysis

February 1, 2012 by Tricia Aanderud
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I have to say I’m in love with the new SAS BI Dashboard and it’s many features. It really brings the Google Analytics to life and helps me understand how the Website traffic changed over time along with the key influences. The following figure gives you an idea of how you can integrate dashboard indicators for an interactive user experience. [read more]

Business Intelligence and Data Management Resources

January 31, 2012 by Tricia Aanderud
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AllAnalytics has a lot of great information about managing data, using business intelligence and just general analytics topics. It’s a data geek’s paradise – and you know who you are! [read more]

Improving Hadoop Performance with Optimization, CDH3 Update 3, and CDH4

January 31, 2012 by Alex Olesker
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CDH4, which will be available in beta shortly, has an even wider array of improvements and additions based on customer demands and industry trends. One of the biggest changes will be the inclusion of a High Availability Namenode so that if the namenode fails you won’t lose the whole cluster or your data. [read more]

Some Thoughts on Decision Terminology

January 31, 2012 by James Taylor
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An interesting thread over on LinkedIn got into a discussion of terminology and I thought I would share my opinion on this here: Decision Management is an approach for supporting, automating, managing and improving decisions. Decision Management Systems are systems that automate and manage repeatable decisions. Decision Support Systems... [read more]

Great Video on How Econometricians Think About Talent Data

January 31, 2012 by Jeremy Shapiro
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Robert Yerex

Robert Yerex is one of the best labor-oriented econometrics folks in non-academic circles right now. He presented at Wolfram’s technology conference last year on how he presents data to people. If you love talent data (particularly from a macro perspective), this is a great 24 minutes spent. [read more]

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