House of Cards and the Art of Working Backwards
Creating a data-driven approach to creating the experience your customers really want.Conversations over lunch, team meetings, Facebook status updates, no…
Business Analytics Error: Learn from Uber’s Mistake During the Sydney Terror Attack
While the purpose of Business Analytics is to optimize outcomes, particular care should be taken in randomly applying analytical techniques…
2015: The Year of IoT Pioneers, Analytics and Data Privacy
This past year welcomed widespread Internet of Things (IoT) adoption and hype, big data implementation, and growing concerns around data…
Business (NOT) as Usual: 3 Big Business Intelligence Predictions for 2015
Each year, I work with dozens of clients in a quest to help them effectively implement their Business Intelligence systems. …
Ignore Your Business, Rake in the Profits
Want to uncover interesting ways to drive value from data? Most organizations focus primarily on internal opportunities that support their…
Looking for Hard to Find Data?
Looking for HTFD (Hard-to-Find-Data)? We Found It!Data is everywhere. The number of unique data sources out there is larger than…
The Must-Have Skills You Need to Become a Data Scientist
Over the past year, interest in data science has soared. Over the past year, interest in data science has soared.…
Who Gets the Call When Your Analytics Process Crashes?
I recently had a meeting with one of the largest companies in the world, where we discussed concerns about ongoing…
Spotlight on SiSense: BI Without the Bandwidth
I was at DataWeek/API World in mid-September 2014 (last week at the time of this writing) and saw some interesting…
Hadoop in Advertising & Media: Is Data Analytics Making Old Media New?
Imagine the chance to truly connect with a customer. Imagine if you knew what movies and television shows they watched, and…
