An Ode to Disruption: Social Media’s Impact on Research-As-Usual
Social media brings benefits to market research that go well beyond new methodology!
LinkedIn mines data for future job paths
Let's say you're a 26-year-old accountant. You're wondering about your future, and it's easy to see the three most common…
A/B Testing and the Need for Clear Business Objectives
The website http://videolectures.net/ contains a wealth of interesting lectures on a wide variety of topics, including data mining. I was reminded…
The impact of the drug war in Mexico
For the last couple of years, Mexico has been in the midst of an escalating drug war, with violent crime…
Are Some BI Vendors too Quiet?
Yesterday, I went to a luncheon put on by Qlikview at the Seattle Yacht Club. I love these vendor luncheons,…
Learning R
When R is brought up as a possibility for doing statistics or data mining or any sort of predictive analytics among…
Promoting Poor Data Quality
A few months ago, during an e-mail correspondence with one of my blog readers from Brazil (I’ll let him decide…
Why Are There Irrational Business Decisions?
I recently attended a presentation by Dr. Franck Schuurmans, a guest lecturer at the Wharton Business School and a consultant…
The opportunity for opportunity analytics
Some time ago Neil Raden and I did some research on analytics. It was clear as we did this that…
Tips for Utilizing Customer Experience Data.
Customer knowledge and experience data can provide a multitude of business intelligence for companies to make better business decisions, yet it is…
