Stalking the Data-Curious Culture – SDC Reflections
This is the first monthly post in the SDC Reflections series where I gather examples from recently contributed articles to…
Creating a Sentimental Social Media Analytics Strategy
For many people or organizations new to social media, sentiment seems like a good place to start an analytics approach.…
Analytics Valley: Big Data, Data Scientists and SAS Programmers
Tom Davenport reported an observation that Silicon Valley is becoming more analytical since companies in the Valley such as Google,…
How to Program MapReduce Jobs in Hadoop with R
MapReduce is a powerful programming framework for efficiently processing very large amounts of data stored in the Hadoop distributed filesystem.
Reference Domains Part III: Collecting Classifications
This is part three in the series about reference domains (a.k.a. classifications). In the first part we looked at the…
Executives Don’t Like Analytics: Why Business Isn’t Data-Driven
The business bestseller lists have showcased several high-profile books featuring case studies of companies enjoying competitive advantage from their cutting-edge…
Math Might Be Scary But It Isn’t New
In the good ol’ days, after the invention of numbers, we did everything by hand – by paper, pen, and…
Building a Text Analytics Command Center for Social & Private Data Analysis
I met with Mehrshad, our CIO, Social Intelligence Architect & VP of Product Management, to talk about a new concept…
Sentiment, Summits and Strategies: A Conversation with Seth Grimes
Last week, I had the great opportunity to chat with Seth Grimes about some of the work he is doing,…
Business People Are Dumb On Average(s)
Here’s one real-life example of the limits in quantitative thinking observed in an average company, shared with me by Michael…
