Overcoming Tradition with Analytics – Baseball’s Mindshift
Tradition is always a challenge to overcome. It reminds me of the definition of stupidity as “repeating the same mistakes…
General Purpose Sensemaking Systems and Information Colocation
General purpose sensemaking systems will colocate diverse data in the same data space. Such an approach enables massively scalable, real-time,…
Talk Analytics with Executives: 4 Things You Must Understand
Data analysis isn’t something you do for your own entertainment. Businesses pay for analytics to support decision-making, to provide them…
Big Data. New Physics.
I spoke at Defrag 2010 earlier today and introduced what I am describing as the new physics of big data.…
The Data Outhouse
This is a screen capture of the results of last week’s unscientific data quality poll where it was noted that…
Art and Science of Data Visualization (Part 2)
Just a little more theory and background on Data Visualization, to eat up the rest of your weekend. Unlike the…
Spinal Tap and The Art of Data Management
Here’s a dirty little about data management: It’s about art as well as science. In this post, I discuss how…
DQ-Poll: Data Warehouse or Data Outhouse?
In many organizations, a data warehouse is the only system where data from numerous and disparate operational sources has been…
