Month: October 2012

Using Maturity Assessments to Improve Performance

The idea of devising and using maturity assessments to improve business performance…

Robert Kugel Robert Kugel 11 Min Read

Yo-Yo Ma, Social Scientist

What can we learn from a cello player?By Roger WoodFounder (ART+DATA) Institute Traditional…

zachpiester zachpiester 5 Min Read

Using Your Human Database to Select a Database

I had the pleasure of speaking with veteran data architecture expert, and…

SocialMktgFella SocialMktgFella 7 Min Read

Advice for the Aspiring Data Scientist

It’s been well-documented throughout the blogosphere over the past few weeks, but…

Michael Koploy Michael Koploy 7 Min Read

Thanks, Big Data: America’s Drinking Habits Predict the Election

Forget about which candidate has the most likes on Facebook or followers…

Melissa Thermidor Melissa Thermidor 5 Min Read

Tracking Hurricane Sandy with Open Data and R

Hurricane Sandy is shaping up to be a major, and very dangerous,…

DavidMSmith DavidMSmith 2 Min Read

The Big Data in Teradata

At the recent Teradata’s annual Partners user conference, the company outlined its…

Mark Smith Mark Smith 7 Min Read

Analytics is Sexy: Let’s Make It Work!

I wrote earlier about this huge gap between talking about analytics and…

Ajay Kelkar Ajay Kelkar 5 Min Read

How to Achieve Equilibrium Between Business Users and IT

A geochemist named James Lovelock once theorized that a fundamental characteristic of…

Editor SDC Editor SDC 5 Min Read

Forget Word Clouds, Celebrity Clouds

Guess the difference between these two ‘Celebrity Clouds’? Guess the difference between…

TomAnderson TomAnderson 1 Min Read