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…
Department of State’s Consular Systems and Technology: A Track Record of Innovation
The Office of Consular Systems and Technology (CST) leads the State Department‘s IT efforts.
The Emerging Role of the Analyst – Posts from the Blogosphere
In response to our call for bloggers to post on the topic of The Emerging Role of the Analyst, we've…
Blasphemy? Quantitative Approaches Don’t Always Work Best
Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates hedge fund, Pure Alpha II, is up 25% in year that hasn’t been kind to competitors.…
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…
