Stat Models, Astronomical Mysteries…and Business Data
If you look at the picture below (Pleiades constellation), you will see - with the naked eye - that many…
Analytical Cultures: Nurture Yours Through Training
By Anne Milley By Anne MilleyAs an organic gardener with spring approaching, I have seeds and soil on my mind.…
NCAA Data Visualizer for March Madness Face-Offs
If you're laying down a friendly bet on the March Madness games or just tweaking your fantasy roster, this NCAA…
Analytics, Graph Search, APIs: Is Facebook Struggling with Big Data?
It astounds me that the recent Facebook Insights kerfluffle wasn't a bigger deal than what was reported. It astounds me that the…
Revolution Analytics CEO: Big Data Is a New Management Discipline
Dave Rich has an interesting theory explaining the rapidly growing interest and investment in big data and specifically, in predictive…
Conducting Remote User Research: 10 Key Concepts
The approach to user research has shifted quite a lot lately. Traditional in-person usability testing used to the be ultimate…
Seven Drawbacks of Traditional OLAP
In 1993, E.F. Codd, the acknowledged founder of relational databases, introduced the term Online Analytical Processing (OLAP). OLAP is intended…
Analytics at Google: Great Example of Data-Driven Decision-Making
Google is a company in which fact-based decision-making is part of the DNA and where Googlers (that is what Google…
Tony Barr and the Early History of SAS
SAS historians (not all SAS users!) know Anthony James Barr (aka Tony Barr or Jim Barr) was the designer and…
Data Science: Equality at Last!
Despite the vast literature around Big Data, the “Data Agents of Change” are still a mysterious bunch. They are called…
