SAP Goes Social
It's turning into a big news week for enterprise social network (ESN) software, first Yammer's 1st user conference, YamJam12, and…
Big Data For Big Weather
Courtesy of hint.fm/wind Courtesy of hint.fm/windThe east coast is slowly recovering from the devastating impact of hurricane Sandy and we…
IBM Cognos Insight Focuses on Discovery and Exploratory Analytics
IBM’s Information on Demand conference last week took over the fifth-largest conference venue in the country at the Mandalay Bay and…
Using Maturity Assessments to Improve Performance
The idea of devising and using maturity assessments to improve business performance has been a staple of management, functional and…
Yo-Yo Ma, Social Scientist
What can we learn from a cello player?By Roger WoodFounder (ART+DATA) Institute Traditional Chinese: 马友友 What can we learn from a…
Advice for the Aspiring Data Scientist
It’s been well-documented throughout the blogosphere over the past few weeks, but every time I read it, I’m still a…
Thanks, Big Data: America’s Drinking Habits Predict the Election
Forget about which candidate has the most likes on Facebook or followers on Twitter. Who needs social networks when "big…
The Big Data in Teradata
At the recent Teradata’s annual Partners user conference, the company outlined its expanding role as a provider distributed information architecture…
Analytics is Sexy: Let’s Make It Work!
I wrote earlier about this huge gap between talking about analytics and being able to actually make a large impact…
Forget Word Clouds, Celebrity Clouds
Guess the difference between these two ‘Celebrity Clouds’? Guess the difference between these two ‘Celebrity Clouds’?Most of you know how…