Rexer Data Mining Survey Results
Karl Rexer has just released the results from his annual survey of data miners – RexerAnalytics.com/Data-Miner-Survey-Results-2010.html. This year 735 data…
A Tale of Two Seas
A friend of mine sent an interesting article recently which highlights the differences between the Dead Sea and Sea of…
SAS Vertical Strategy
Focus of the presentation from Russ Cobb was Banking, Insurance, Retail and Government. Banking first. Lots of releases this year…
Data, Data Everywhere
"Big data" is everywhere—whether you’re talking about the explosion of new data sources and subsequent volumes or even the ubiquitous use…
Delivering Data Warehousing and BI Projects using Agile
There is a lot of buzz lately around Agile BI and Agile data warehousing. Typical questions asked include - Does…
Webtrends Engage 2011: Making Web Analytics Sexy
I spent a few days this week catching up with Webtrends during its annual user event, Engage, in San Francisco.…
Statistics: The Need for Integration
I'd like to revisit an issue we covered here, way back in 2007: Statistics: Why Do So Many Hate It?.…
Why CRM ain’t CRM if it isn’t Social
Almost a year back, I wrote about how four independent trends, namely Social Media, Smart Phones/Portable Devices, Cloud Computing/SaaS and Predictive Analytics were converging…
How BI and Data Analytics Professionals Used Twitter in February
February was an eventful month for data analytics and BI professionals on Twitter. This month we bring you famous Tweeters…
Big data, big acquisition, still some big questions
Teradata announced its intent to acquire Aster Data today. Obviously this is big news in analytics-land and I participated in…
