Learning About Data Visualization
Even though there is an art to visualization design, it stands to reason that this is a skill that can…
Analytics, Schmanalytics! How to Evaluate an Analyst
When you need your taxes prepared, you hire a CPA. When you’ve got a bridge to build, you hire a…
Data Visualization Practices at the New York Times
Amanda Cox of the New York Times' graphics department recently gave a great presentation to the New Media Days conference…
Virtualization, Federation, EII and other non-synonyms
As an old proponent of the Enterprise Data Warehouse or EDW (well, let me stick my neck out and claim…
Defending Your Analytics: Handling Hecklers
The Nature of the Beast The trumpet sounds and the matador, dressed in gold, parades into the ring as a…
Giving Thanks as an Information Scientist
As a first-generation American who is married to a card-carrying Native American, I celebrate Thanksgiving the traditional way: a day…
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.…
