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…
SAP Goes Social
It's turning into a big news week for enterprise social network (ESN) software, first Yammer's 1st user conference, YamJam12, and…
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…
Yo-Yo Ma, Social Scientist
What can we learn from a cello player?By Roger WoodFounder (ART+DATA) Institute Traditional Chinese: 马友友 What can we learn from a…
Using Your Human Database to Select a Database
I had the pleasure of speaking with veteran data architecture expert, and Soliber.net columnist, Tcat Houser. I reached out to…
Advice for the Aspiring Data Scientist
It’s been well-documented throughout the blogosphere over the past few weeks, but every time I read it, I’m still a…
