How Much Big Data is Too Much?
With storage costs plummeting and sophisticated software approaches to mining Big Data, it appears that it is increasingly cost effective…
Guns, States, and Death (Illustrated Comments on Aurora)
Surfing the web soon after the July 19th massacre in Colorado yielded two geovisualizations that touched, in part or in…
Denver Broncos and Olympians Go Digital
The “measured life” of tracking health vital signs, calorie intakes, feces analysis and more is moving past the domain of…
Data Visualization’s Final Frontier
Back story Back story35 years ago a mathematics theorist-teacher named Al Inselberg was thinking, "enough of placing data variables on…
Private Clouds Are Here to Stay—Especially for Data Warehousing
Some cloud experts are proclaiming private clouds “are false clouds”, or that the term was conveniently conjured to support vendor…
The Softer Side of Risk Management Means Fewer Analytics
For the past 25 years, with their elegant analytical models, quantitative analysts and transplanted physicists have ruled the roost in…
100 Petabytes of Data in Poop?
University of California computer scientist Dr. Larry Smarr is a man on a mission—to measure everything his body consumes, performs,…
Can Big Data Analytics Solve “Too Big to Fail” Banking Complexity?
Despite investing millions upon millions of dollars in information technology systems, analytical modeling and PhD talent sourced from the best…
Top Financial Risks of Doing Business in the Cloud
Cloud computing definitely has upside as adopters can speed delivery of analytics, gain flexibility in deployments and costs, and transfer…
Fight Back Against Black Swan Fatigue
In today’s lean, just-in-time, and over optimized world, it’s not uncommon for executives roll their eyes when the term “Black…
