Why Business Needs Public Data
With over 30 years in retail site location strategy, I used Census data every day to analyze business critical issues.…
Increased Demands for BI within Healthcare IT
What is driving the demand for BI and analytic professionals within healthcare? What is driving the demand for BI and…
I Love Social Media Because Sample Sizes Can Be In The Millions
I recently wrote a blog post citing ten of the things I love about social media research. Today I address love…
Choose Your Target Carefully
Every so often, an article or survey will appear stressing the importance of data preparation as an early step in…
Three Ways of Visualizing the Growth of Walmart
It's a wonderful thing when people make interesting data sets available to the public. When Thomas Jones wrote a paper…
Decision time: Automated data integration tools versus manual coding
SearchDataManagement recently interviewed me about SearchDataManagement recently interviewed me about automated data integration tools versus manual coding:Data integration is often…
IBM’s Billion-Dollar Bet on Kenexa for Social Business and Talent Management
IBM has announced its intention to acquire Kenexa as part of IBM Smarter Workforce initiative and social business software division. It’s a…
Drowning in Data: New Research Reveals that Sales Reps are Struggling to Keep Up
Good data does not guarantee good sales results.
Location Intelligence: Top 12 industries
Location Intelligence (LI) – the ability to map and compare your spatially significant data with your more traditional metrics captured…
Defining Big Data for the Public CIO
The following is a piece I wrote for Public CIO. It is reposted here with their permission. I would appreciate…
