Talk Analytics with Executives: 4 Things You Must Understand
Data analysis isn’t something you do for your own entertainment. Businesses pay for analytics to support decision-making, to provide them…
Highlights from Teradata Partners 2010
It’s a sure bet that attendees of the first Teradata User Group, navigating the Riviera Country Club’s lush 18 holes,…
Top 10 analytics mistakes
One of my favorite presenters, John Elder, presented his top 10 analytic mistakes at Teradata Partners.
Right Time Business Optimization
Mike Ferguson presented on Right Time Business Optimization using on-demand and event-driven analytics at the Teradata Partners conference. Business optimization,…
Teradata Active Enterprise Update
Quick update from Teradata to kick off the day focused on Active Enterprise Intelligence. This remains a key theme for…
The three legged stool – business, analytics, IT
I was inspired to write something this week on the need to get people to collaborate by a post Jim…
That Wall Dividing IT and Users
What more can I say about this provocative and contentious issue of a barrier wall separating IT and the business…
Inside a Consumer’s Mind with Text Analytics
So far we have seen several examples on how Predictive Analytics applied in Social Media and Blog posts can help…
Wolfram/Alpha and the future of search
The New York Times article on the arm of my chair is about the plight of poor workers in South…
Analytics and the myth of the aha moment
I often hear people talk about analytics, especially advanced analytics like data mining or predictive analytic modeling, as though the…