Remedial Math: Understanding TCO and ROI
During my recent travels there were a lot of comments around either the cost of a data warehouse or the…
“It is the human friction that makes the sparks”
From Jonah Lehrer, Brainstorming Doesn’t Really Work (via Stowe Boyd): Building 20 and brainstorming came into being at almost exactly the same time.…
Selling Data Mining to Management
Preparing data and building data mining models are two very well documented steps of analytics projects. However, whatever interesting your…
CIO Becomes the New CMO!
Marketing budgets are now larger than IT budgets & growing faster says Gartner. By 2017, Gartner says that CMO’s will…
Taking a Dimension-Free View of Data
One of the biggest challenges facing businesses today is the intimidating nature of big data. Many decision makers suffer from…
LightSquared vs FCC: What is the right position?
An issue I’d recommend all free thinking technologists dive into is the current technological trades facing the nation over LightSquared.…
Big Brother… or do I mean Big Data?
"Social networks already know who you know", "recommendation engines get much smarter", "early detection mitigates catastrophes". Three of ten ways big…
Big data and social analytics
Commenting on one of the interesting things when businesses try to install a new social platform within the enterprise, Marie…
Design Is Not Science: an Interview With Nate Bolt
Nate Bolt is the co-founder and president of Bolt | Peters, a research and design firm specializing in remote usability,…
On Google, Privacy, and Data Management
Google’s new privacy policy is causing quite the stir. In a nutshell, effective March 1st of this year, the company…
