Business, Analytics and Technical User Roles When Automating Decisions
Organizations of all kinds make many decisions, decisions that are critical to their success. These decisions can be divided into…
Is Your Domain Incarcerated?
You may very well be under the impression that you are the sole owner of your…
Hope is Not a Strategy: Real Data Warehouse DR planning
In my long tenure as a data warehousing provider, it is often that I will find parallels and analogies in…
Customer Data Integration (CDI) – for a Single View of Your Customer
How profitable are your customers? What have they purchased lately? Are there opportunities to up-sell and cross-sell to them? You…
Is Analytics “Different”?: 2 Lessons in Sales from The Mayflower Madam
Sydney Biddle Barrows is an expert in marketing luxury services. She consults for plastic surgeons, salons, retailers and others. Her…
What Will You Tolerate?
One of my kid’s favorite books when they were younger had the line “never tease a weasel (it isn’t very…
At Zynga, Analytics is About Impact
Anyone can play Zynga’s FarmVille and other games, but very few get to analyze the data that runs off. Ken…
Guest Blog: Data 2.0 Conference Report
Note: This post was written by Scott Nicholson, a Senior Data Scientist at LinkedIn. Scott is data and modeling…
4 Ways to Prevent Dirty Data From Spoiling Analytics
Change is good — except when change means you are constantly revising and checking databases, unsure of whether records are…
