Dave Wells’ prescription for the incurious
Former TDWI education director Dave Wells keeps running into users whose BI reports might as well be printed. These users…
Rogue Wave Software Acquires Visual Numerics
Visual Numerics, a company with some interesting embeddable analytic products (reviewed here and here) has just been acquired by RogueWave,…
Scoring data in ADAPA via web services using SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
Data integration is a big part of putting your predictive models to work. ADAPA allows for easy model deployment, but…
ASCII Data Modeling Tool – Amazing Stuff!
I saw a tweet by @EelcoVisser about yUML, an online tool to create UML models from text. This page, by…
Project Cartoon: Data Modeling – Different Points of View
You certainly can tell that it's the weekend. @projmgr tweeted about a project management cartoon he found recently. I did…
Thank You Peter Kim and Jeremiah Owyang
I’m working on several exciting projects at the moment that I can’t yet disclose, but this isn’t about that. I’ve…
Yahoo Web Analytics 9.5 launched!
I’ve worked on this project for months now, consulting on pieces from feature inclusion to wording on the confidence interval…
#7: Here’s a thought…
An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:First, the decisionThe first…
Dashboards should do more than raise your blood pressure
This headline came from a briefing I got from LucidEra about their spring release and was so good I just…
Apples and Oranges
There's a fascinating -- and heated -- discussion going on over at Flowing Data about visualizations, and the quality thereof.…
