Dashboards: A Kite with a Broken String?
How do executives expect to realize their strategic objectives if all they look at is financial results like product profit…
Decision engines in financial services
The use of technology to automate and manage decisions, especially high volume decisions essential to day-to-day operational execution, is expanding…
MongoDB 30,000 downloads a month?
Image by Cesar Rodas via Flickr While I have written about NoSQL generating a lot of buzz recently I have…
R/Finance 2010 … and unicorns
At the Information Management blogs, Steve Miller has posted a great roundup of last weekend's R/Finance 2010 conference in Chicago.…
Patterns patterns everywhere
Introduction A lot of human scientific and technological progress over the span of recorded history has been related to discerning…
R 2.11.0 released
The latest version of R from the R Project, R 2.11.0, is now available in source code form. Binaries for…
Quest for knowledge
When I was growing up, my mother encouraged me to become a librarian. I think she plotted that career path…
Moving from the PC Era to the Mobile Era
Smart phones, mobile devices, tablets, slates...there's no question that we're flooded with an ever expanding number of options for connecting…
Paying for rules by the rule with IDIOM
I have blogged about the folks at IDIOM before and I recently heard that they are making IDIOM Decision Manager…
The Iceland Volcano Ash – A Great Way to Validate Business Analytics
Like many business travelers my flight home to the USA was delayed several days due to the Iceland volcano ash…
