Matt Lease: Recent Adventures in Crowdsourcing and Human Computation
Today we (specifically, my colleague Daria Sorokina) had the pleasure of hosting UT-Austin professor Matt Lease at LinkedIn to give…
Back to the Future of Business Intelligence
When was the term "business intelligence" first coined? You might assume it was first conceived in the late 1980's; coinciding…
Location Intelligence: Top 12 industries
Location Intelligence (LI) – the ability to map and compare your spatially significant data with your more traditional metrics captured…
More on Forecasting Benchmarks
The Perils RevisitedA few posts ago I warned of the perils of forecasting benchmarks, and why they should not be…
Stop Wasting Time on Significance Tests
Have you ever conducted a research project and NOT done any significance tests?Have you ever run a series of significance…
Twitter, Facebook, Customer Service and Surgery
Yeah, yeah, yeah — been long, I know. Busy, you know? Plenty going on, plenty behind us and even more…
Are Google’s Engagement Programs Losing Oxygen?
An article came out recently highlighting Google’s new “death benefits” offering where the spouse or domestic partner receives 50% of…
Interactive Analysis and Related Tools – Part II
In my last article, I have talk about interactive analysis from the definition and explains with an example, and today…
Interactive Analysis and Relate Tools – Part I
I will talk something about interactive analytics and a series of related tools in business intelligence industry. For those who doesn’t…
How Mobile Operators are Mining Big Data
Mobile phone operators have long mined details on voice and data transactions to measure service quality, place cellular towers in…
