Winner of the 2012 Government Big Data Solutions Award
The Government Big Data Solutions Award was established to highlight innovative solutions and facilitate the exchange of best practices, lessons…
How Nate Silver Won the Election with Data Science
While I'm pleased with the outcome of yesterday's election in political terms, I'm equally thrilled about the victory for Data…
Analytics Overkill: Dashboards, Analysis and Big Data in the US Election
The presidential race was tight - or so we were told. What I found fascinating in the run-up to the…
Improving Data Integration the Old Fashioned Way
IT organizations have spent enormous sums of money over the past 10-15 years attacking productivity. They’ve acquiring data integration tools,…
The Data Discovery: Investing in Customer Insight
In many of our engagements with new clients, the old Donald Rumsfeld phrase of ‘We don’t know what we don’t…
More Data Apps Spawned by Sandy
As the clean-up continues on the eastern seaboard, I wanted to follow up on Monday's post on tracking Hurricane Sandy…
Big Data For Big Weather
Courtesy of hint.fm/wind Courtesy of hint.fm/windThe east coast is slowly recovering from the devastating impact of hurricane Sandy and we…
Mining for Gold in Your Data
Where to Dig and What to Look ForInfotech research giant Gartner defines data mining as the process of discovering meaningful…
What’s the Big Deal About Big Data?
Big data is getting tons of attention these days. But why?Big data is big business. Trillions of bytes of information…
Data Preparation: Know Your Records!
Data preparation in data mining and predictive analytics (dare I also say Data Science?) rightfully focuses on how the fields…
