Finally, a good place for pie charts
The junk food of data visualization has found a home. Pie charts show up everywhere, just like trans fats. Visual…
Start a Dialogue about Master Data Management
Just mentioning master data management (MDM) will cause businesspeople’s eyes to glaze over and most IT folks to run for…
It’s Just a Little More Disk Space
Recently I bought a Maxtor OneTouch™ 1TB backup drive for my son’s PC. We had been using a 320 Gb…
Hospitals are increasingly relying on electronic tracking…
Hospitals are increasingly relying on electronic tracking systems to keep tabs on equipment and lab specimens, and even to monitor…
On ethical issues of randomized experiments
After reading Super Crunchers, a recent book by Ian Ayres, I have thought of ethical aspects of some experiments he…
Google Uses Web Searches to Track Flu’s Spread
Google Uses Web Searches to Track Flu’s Spread: Turns out a lot of ailing Americans enter phrases like “flu symptoms”…
Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing | A book by…
Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing | A book by Adam Greenfield “Greenfield’s thesis is that technology and our…
Eight Levels Of Analytics
The number of companies advertising Analytics as one of their service offerings leaves me astounded. I also come across an…
There’s always a food angle, even in text analytics
Text analytics was one of those things I heard about every so often. Like so many terms in this business,…
Mardi Gras in November
I spent most of last week at TDWI in New Orleans. Although I didn't get much of an opportunity to…
