The interoperability of social networks
Google recently added a caustic warning message when users attempt to export their Google Contacts to Facebook: Hold on a…
Big Data, Big Problems
In the global marketplace, businesses and employees are creating and consuming more information than ever before. Gartner predicts that enterprise…
Let your gray hair light your way through unfamiliar data
How do you approach unfamiliar data? An investment banker I talked to last week — one I know from a…
Big Data Makes a Big Difference
One of the coolest parts of my job is seeing how companies use analytics to drive their business. The term…
Art and Science of Data Visualization
“Data Visualization” has been an extremely active and popular topic for a few years – we can use Google’s Timeline…
Mining for consumer behavior in Tweets
In the previous post we discussed the first steps necessary to understand what consumers write in their Tweets regarding their…
Early Indications October 2010: The Analytics Moment: Getting numbers to tell stories
Thanks in part to vigorous efforts by vendors (led by IBM) to bring the idea to a wider public, analytics…
Seven Questions That Make Analytics Smarter
In a recent discussion at Boston’s Knowledge Management Forum, KM Forum President Larry Chait and Industry Consultant Jack Vinson shared a…
Quality and Governance are Beyond the Data
Last week’s episode of DM Radio on Information Management, co-hosted as always by Eric Kavanagh and Jim Ericson, was a…