Public Information
In a past life I co-founded and led a company specialised in the analysis of publicly available textual information. The…
Data Integration: Hand-coding Using ETL Tools
We are creatures of habit. It’s not easy to stop doing something the way we’ve always done it. Especially when…
Is Enterprise 2.0 a Crock?
I’m at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco for the past 2 days, and after speaking with and listening…
The statistics of vaccines
I took my Atlantic to work with me yesterday, and did some old-fashioned analog reading, giving my iTouch a well-deserved…
Customer Incognita
Many enterprise information initiatives are launched in order to unravel that riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma, that…
Am I a Dinosaur already?
Last month I attended the 2009 CIO Executive Summit in Sydney. There were a number of interesting and challenging presentations,…
A 1948 Film About IT Systems Development: Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
I'm a real fan of classic movies, as you can tell from some of my quotes from presentations or articles.…
No wizard, just you and the data
What’s the hardest part of training a new data analyst? Resetting the trainee’s mindset. “They start out with the idea…
Social software adoption, how are we doing?
I was going through some IDC survey data that I got back recently and I think there's an interesting story…
Data visualization: a new way of looking at the world -…
Data visualization: a new way of looking at the world - CNN.com “Specialists from scientists to accountants have been dealing…