Scary Big Data, Cool 3D Analytics and More
What’s going on in the analytics world this week?Big, Scary Big DataThe…
New Trends in BI, Analytics and Social Media
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Brain Scans Show No Difference Between Pie Chart and Bar Chart Perception?
Which is better for communicating information: pie charts or bar charts? “Pie…
OLTP meets OLAP, BI Conferences, Sybase Who? And Other News
The Big NewsThe big news over the last week has been, of…
Baking and Computers, a Surprising History of Analytics Pioneers
Perhaps surprisingly, bakers have a history of being analytics pioneers, from the…
Christmas Tree Analytics
According to research firm IBISWorld, Americans will spend around $3.4 billion buying…
Is Big Data The New Term for Business Intelligence?
The term “business intelligence” was first coined by IBM researcher Hans Luhn…
Never Underestimate the Importance of BI User Training
When I present on the topic of business intelligence failure, one theme…
The Peril of Analytics (Cartoon)
Analytics has always been dangerous for a certain type of middle-manager… Analytics…
Scrooge Didn’t Believe in Sentiment Analysis Either
I mentioned Ebenezer Scrooge, Charles Dickens’ fictional financier from A Christmas Carol,…