Cloud OPEX vs. CAPEX – Which is the Better Choice?
Among CIOs and CFOs debate swirls regarding how to best budget for and acquire IT resources. The key questions are;…
5 Steps To Winning with Analytics: Have a plan
Numerous business leaders have already come to the conclusion that Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics backed by data can lend…
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…
