Data Mining Fundamentals: Terms You Must Know
If anyone tells you there is a firm definition for the term “data mining,” that person is either misinformed or…
Five Top Tips for Corporate Performance Management (CPM)
CPM is about managing and improving business performance, which, of course, is at the top of the agenda of senior…
Rules for Assuring Poor Performance
In 1773 Benjamin Franklin, one of the USA’s founding fathers, wrote a pamphlet aimed at the royalty of England titled…
Managing By the Numbers: Penny Wise, Pound Foolish?
Every good business manager loves metrics. After all, the old adage, “You can't manage what you don't measure” still holds…
Sophisticated Text Mining Can Provide Context for Sentiment Analysis
One of the most powerful features of semantic technology is its ability to contextually understand content; to derive meaning from…
More Proof that “Data Geek” Jobs are Hotter than Hot
Author: Linda Rosencrance of the Spotfire Blogging Team
Building an Analytical Portal to Support Analytical Culture
CAN was started in 2008, to make predictive analytics applicable and accessible to businesses of almost any size. To fulfill our…
Unifying Your Social and Private Data Analytics – Creating an Integrated Customer Data Hub
Analyzing social media conversations, while critical to surfacing real-time customer considerations and preferences, represents only part of the equation to…
Many Kinds of Analytics, One Approach to Maximize Their Value
Working with clients it is clear that the interest in analytics has never been greater than it is today. Yet…
Big Data: What can an energy company teach us about data science?
Two weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend the Economist’s first Information Conference on big data and the disruption…
