The Data Miner’s Role as Honest Broker and Change Agent
They say that you can’t be a prophet in your own land. As someone who is always an outsider to…
Quicksand, Data Overload and Corporate Concrete
One of Avinash‘s favorite expressions is “data puke’, which goes a long way to describing the vast majority of charts,…
How To Challenge Your Assumptions
Challenging assumptions can unlock the creativity needed for innovative solutions. That was a key theme that emerged at the Leadership Asheville…
New IARPA Program Aims To Discover Tech Trends
The Intelligence Community’s Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) office of “incisive analysis” has been evaluating plans, projects and proposals submitted…
Business, IT Must Meet Half Way to Form Partnership
Given the focus of this blog, I was quite interested in a CFO.com article titled Your CIO, Your Problem, which…
Every User an Analyst – Bah, Humbug!
"Oracle Exalytics enables organizations to make decisions faster... through the introduction of interactive visualization capabilities that make every user an…
Changing Environment is Changing Analytics
Looking back across the last ten years working with analysts in a variety of industries, I realize how much has…
Self-Promoters Score! Why Analysts Can’t be Shy Anymore
It’s 2011. Analytics is hot! Does that mean we analysts are hot, too? Well, no. “Hot” isn’t a term…
Success for the Data Scientist = Happiness
In this presentation at the Strata Conference in New York this past week, John Rauser of Amazon defined the data…
