Blasphemy? Quantitative Approaches Don’t Always Work Best
Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates hedge fund, Pure Alpha II, is up 25% in year that hasn’t been kind to competitors.…
Every User an Analyst – Bah, Humbug!
"Oracle Exalytics enables organizations to make decisions faster... through the introduction of interactive visualization capabilities that make every user an…
Building a Better Analyst
I participated recently as a panelist in a Business Intelligence Summit at the University of Akron as they had identified a…
The Ever-changing Analyst Role
Always good to have a theme where our blog community can share thoughts on a common topic. This topic of…
Self-Promoters Score! Why Analysts Can’t be Shy Anymore
It’s 2011. Analytics is hot! Does that mean we analysts are hot, too? Well, no. “Hot” isn’t a term…
Success for the Data Scientist = Happiness
In this presentation at the Strata Conference in New York this past week, John Rauser of Amazon defined the data…
Rock • Analyst • Hard Place
At iPerceptions, we live and breathe web analytics. The conferences and trade shows we attend all have an analytics focus.…
BI Shouldn’t Be Part-time Pursuit for Analysts
As much money as companies pour into enterprise software, you'd think they'd be interested in maximizing the value they get…
How BI and Data Analytics Professionals Used Twitter in September
Hello to all the Tweeps who are following our monthly roundup of all things business intelligence and data analytics on…
Help Nonprofits and NGOs at Data Without Borders DataDives
Data Without Borders, the organization devoted to bringing the skills of data scientists to nonprofits and NGOs who could better use…