Disasters by Damage Control or Risk Management?
Watching the news grabs and reading about the Haiti disaster highlights to me the vast, tragic human cost of such…
Thinking different with decision analysis
When Wayne Eckerson foresees a trend, it’s news even if others might have already foreseen it. He’s the director of…
The Life Saved By a Database May Be Your Own! Dot-Connecting Is Serious Business
By now, we’re all aware of the Detroit bombing attempt and President Obama’s comment that US security organizations need to…
Business Intelligence is available in BETA!
Finally, what we’ve all been waiting for, today the entire next wave of Microsoft Business Intelligence is available in Beta.…
COSS BI: Open Source, Open Core or Openly Naked?
Peter Yared wrote recently a BusinessWeek guest blog post called “Failure of Commercial Open Source Software.” Not surprisingly his post…
DMR Poll: Privacy Issues when Merging CRM and Web Customer Data
I would be interested to know what is your opinion about internet privacy, especially when a company combines their customer…
The State of Analytics Across Asia
Further to my last blog, I have collected my facts and thoughts into a year-end overview of Asia in 2009.…
Disappointed for MySQL
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Like many I was disappointed, yet not surprised, that the EC formally logged their…
Is 2010 The Year Asia Cuts the Apron Strings?
It has been many years since I last worked in China and a couple of recent announcements led me to…
Ensemble Prediction
I wrote a note on how to combine multiple predictors with only marginally higher than baseline accuracy to construct an…
