SnapLogic: Making Big Data Integration as a Service a Hadoop Reality
SnapLogic, a provider of data integration in the cloud, last week announced Big Data-as-a-Service to address businesses’ needs t SnapLogic, a provider…
4 Retail BI Lessons to Learn from Google’s Nexus Fail
I’m a frugal kind of guy, and yet I can’t stand to waste money on something so low quality that…
Customer-Focused Marketing: Automation Is the Easy Part
Marketing automation (MA) is a hot topic right now – it's also in the early stages of potentially becoming an…
Synchronize Your Brains with (Data) Storytelling
We all like stories. Why? We can lose ourselves in them for a time. Stories can make us feel as…
Adventures in MOOC: Back to School, Part 2
When I was in first grade, I won an art contest among my young peers. When I was in first…
Data Visualizations: The Tip of the Iceberg of Understanding
Thanks to Tom Mackay, principal solution architect at QlikTech, I recently came upon the article “Seven Dirty Secrets of Data…
A Data Scientist Investigates the Belgian Municipal Elections
Remark: This is the Dnglish version of my previous Dutch blog post. Remark: This is the Dnglish version of my…
10 R Packages Every Data Scientist Should Know About
The yhat blog lists 10 R packages they wish they'd known about earlier. Drew Conway calls them "10 reasons to…
When Does Cloud ERP Start Saving Money?
Companies that implement a cloud ERP solution are yielding significant and tangible cost reductions in both IT staff and hardware…
Video: Data Mining with R
Our recent Introduction to R for Data Mining webinar was a record setter, with more than 2000 registrants and more than…
