Votamatic Predicted the Presidential Election Results with R
While Nate Silver got a lot of the attention for correctly forecasting the US presidential election, other forecasters were just…
Relational DB Pros: The Times They Are A-Changin’
Recently I read a thoughtful post at the PASS Business Analytics Conference site discussing how different the world is now for database…
Big Data Analytics, Business Intelligence and the Mind of Sherlock Holmes
“My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.” — The Adventure…
The Use and Abuse of Big Data
As we begin a new year, we are promised a move from a focus on the meaning and technology of…
What Makes Self-Service Statistical Computing Tools So Important?
Worldwide IT spending will continue to grow in 2013 according to Forrester research and self-service computing and analytics is one…
Team Obama Mastered the Science of Mass Persuasion — and Won
Last October, a colleague and I speculated on how a special, powerful form of predictive analytics would revolutionize presidential campaigning—and,…
The Quantified Self, Part I: Will it Lead to Better Data Management?
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be writing about self-quantification. In today’s post, I’ll introduce the topic and address a…
Using Data Analysis to Avoid 4 Common Causes of Business Failure
Although figures vary, it’s estimated that between half and 75% of businesses are destined to fail within the first three…
OLTP meets OLAP, BI Conferences, Sybase Who? And Other News
The Big NewsThe big news over the last week has been, of course, the release of SAP Business Suite Powered…
The Big Deal is in the 2013 Business Analytics Research Agenda
Did you catch all the big data analogies people used in 2012? There were many, like the refinement of oil…
