Valuable Big Data Insights via Nike+ Gamification Platform
Nike turned the most uncomplicated sport in the world, running, into a data-driven social sport that gives users access to…
How Apple’s iWatch Will Push Big Data Analytics
Is the next big innovation from Apple - a watch - going to change the world of big data as…
Don’t Gloat Over Excel Model Failures
Two noted economists, Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhardt, recently had their findings on country debt to GDP ratios questioned, as…
Metric-Driven Agile for Big Data
Working in Bing Local Search brings together a number of interesting challenges. Working in Bing Local Search brings together a…
The Secret BI / Big Data Playbook
Emerging Technologies: Cloud, Mobile, Business Intelligence (BI) and Big Data are changing the way we do business for the better.…
Consumerization Revisited: Why Aesthetics Matter
I’ve been an advocate of the consumerization of BI for a number of years. Business Discovery platforms like QlikView that…
Social Data and Mobile Diminishing the Significance of the Resume
Although resumes still remain the gold standard of job hunting and applying to job postings, there is a shift happening.…
The Enterprise Brain
In his 1938 collection of essays, World Brain, H. G. Wells explained that “it is not the amount of knowledge that…
Smarter Agent Performance Management
I read a lot these days about how companies should pay more attention to contact center agent or customer service…
The Amateur Data Scientist and Her Projects
With so much data available for free everywhere, and so many open tools, I would expect to see the emergence…
