Hadoop to Be Pervasive By 2015
Gartner projects that by 2015, 65% of packaged analytic applications with advanced analytics will come with Hadoop embedded. Sounds rational,…
Data Integration Ecosystem for Big Data and Analytics
In my article, “Data Integration Roadmap to Support Big Data and Analytics,” I detailed a five step process to transition…
IBM to Acquire Star Analytics for Financial Data Integration
IBM this week announced its pending acquisition of the Star Analytics product portfolio. Star Analytics is a privately held company that offers…
Forecasting Is Harder Than It Looks
Want to make weather forecasting look good? Want to make weather forecasting look good? Compare it to predicting the economy. So…
Big Data Scientists Are Bridge Builders
Kathryn Kelly recently put up an excellent post titled Data Scientists Not Required: Big Data Is About Business Users. I commented…
10 Ways to Gain Targeted Insights Into User Behavior
When optimizing your website for more conversion, there are several factors that matter. Some things, such as the usability and…
Visualizing Networks in R: Arc Diagrams and Hive Plots
Arc diagrams are an alternative way of representing two-dimensional graphs. Rather than scattering the nodes across the page connected by…
Data Scientists Not Required: Big Data Is About Business Users
Big data doesn’t sound like a provocative field. In a recent panel at the Global Big Data Conference, however, I said…
Scary Big Data, Cool 3D Analytics and More
What’s going on in the analytics world this week?Big, Scary Big DataThe New York Times did some “etymological detective work”…
Data Mining and Analysis Aren’t Always the Answer
Data mining is an important tool whose benefits have been demonstrated in diverse fields, among business, government and non-profit organizations.…
