Taking Measurement of Your Measurements
Wise things I have learned over the years. Never eat cotton candy in the rain, never shine a flashlight into…
QR Codes and Social Media
People are talking about QR codes and QR marketing. QR codes are codes that allow you to tag on your…
Lessons from F1 racing: Timely Decisions Get You on the Podium
In only a few week’s time the Grand Prix of Spain will be hosted at the Circuit de Catalunya, which…
You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
Yesterday’s Gala Dinner took place at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC), a magnificient building overlooking the city and…
Automate Data Remediation to Find Dirty Data Before Your Customers Do
I teach a graduate course on data warehousing at Northeastern University in Boston.
4 Ways to Prevent Dirty Data From Spoiling Analytics
Change is good — except when change means you are constantly revising and checking databases, unsure of whether records are…
Exterior Design, Part II: Frequency
To continue the theme of designing for an ever changing set of requirements, I wanted to talk about the second…
First Look – Eagle Eye Analytics
Eagle Eye Analytics is an analytics company offering advanced predictive modeling to the Property and Casualty insurance market. The company…
A New Economy of Data
There is a revolution in data. Yet the revolution is not as much a new technology as it is a…
Dirty Data: Embarrassing, Expensive, Avoidable
I recently experienced a data-quality problem first-hand while on the phone with the company that books my family a condo…
