Will Dwinnell: 6 Reasons You Hired the Wrong Data Miner
By Will Dwinnell By Will DwinnellAs is in any discipline, talent within data mining community varies greatly. Generally, business people and others…
2013 1H Conferences in Social Media, BI, Big Data, and Sentiment Applications
As a sometime conference organizer, I need to track events that will compete for the attention of my target audience.…
Data Mining Book Review: Future Ready
If you are working on forecasting, you may be interested in the book from Steve Morlidge and Steve Player: Future…
Big Data and Crowdsourcing in Humanitarian Crisis Mapping
Last Thursday, I attended a webinar that was called Monitoring Humanitarian Crises in the Digital Age: Crisis Mapping, Crowdsourcing, and Satellite…
Broadening the Reach of Self-Service BI
The necessity of self-service is obvious once you realize that traditional BI has limited reach within user communities. For example,…
Real-Time Pricing Algorithms – For or Against Us?
In 2012, Cyber Monday sales climbed 30% over the previous year’s results. Indeed, Cyber Monday benefits both online retailers as…
Bigger Than Big Data? Mobile User Expectations
How big data is shaping mobile user expectationsBy Jeff Hasen How big data is shaping mobile user expectationsBy Jeff HasenHipcricket Chief…
The Data Geek’s Guide to Happiness in 2013
When it comes to happiness, why don't we do what we do best as data geeks, collect data on it,…
Decision Automation: How To Augment Predictive Analytics with Human Intelligence
This article examines the perfect combination of automated decisioning with advanced analytics and the human interaction.Let’s start with a simple…
Data Integration Roadmap to Support Big Data and Analytics
Traditional extract, transform and load (ETL) has existed since the times when data warehousing evolved to help move data from…
