Habits of Innovation
Despite BI's advances, companies continue to struggle with responding quickly to a continuously evolving information landscape and the need for…
Marketing Executives Aren’t Ready for the Social Explosion of Data
I had a chance to review the results of an interesting new global study of chief marketing officers (CMOs) by IBM, and…
Crossing the Language Chasm: Extracting Information from Foreign-Language Text
Just a few years ago, text analytics was unknown to most business people, even most data analysts. Today, more and…
Find Value in Online/Social Text and Sentiment: Free Report, Conferences
This is a quick entry to tell you about three things --- My free report, "Text/Content Analytics 2011: User Perspectives…
Foundation of Social Business: Defining Social and Enterprise Text Analytics
Normally, I steer clear of defining terms, primarily because of the term “exceptions”. There are exceptions to every rule so…
Text Analytics WIIFM (What’s in it for Me?)
Every day or so, someone asks me what’s hot in analytics now. My answer is simple – text. Text analytics,…
Experimentation, Open Source and Big Data
An interesting article in BusinessWeek on Big Data recently caught my eye. The article mentions different applications that allow organizations to…
Big Analytics: Closing the ‘Clue Gap’ with Big Data
There's been an growing discussion over the past couple of years on the topic of Big Data: how to deal…
What IT Professionals Can Learn from Librarians
I never would have considered IT professionals and librarians kindred spirits if I hadn't interviewed Steven Zink, Ph.D., then the VP…
Using Semantic Analysis for White Space Discovery
All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown. - William Harvey
