Four Really Real Meanings of Real-Time
Our director of engineering told me that she had a customer ask if…
4 Reasons Why Big Data Analytics Projects Fail, or Do They?
A few months back, I was presenting with a friend at a…
Schema on Read vs Schema on Write and Why Shakespeare Hates Me
A couple of months ago, I found myself without a full time…
Actian DataFlow, the Little Hadoop Engine That Could, But Probably Won’t
In Hadoop’s ecosystem of massively parallel cluster computing frameworks, Actian DataFlow is…
In-Memory Analytic Databases Are so Last Century
In an article written last year by an industry analyst that I respect,…
Big Data Scientists Are Bridge Builders
Kathryn Kelly recently put up an excellent post titled Data Scientists Not Required:…
Predictive Analytic Strategies to Out-Predict the Competition
Predictive analytics is a method to study the past and, using a…
A Different Strategy for Solvable Problems in Big Data Predictive Analytics
I had a long conversation with James Taylor of Decision Management Solutions…