Celebrating New Year (Already)
Consumers & businesses are rejoicing the festive occasions of Diwali in India. Diwali, the festival of lights brings on the…
Cloudy days
Oracle OpenWorld's done for this year and I'm now spending the weekend trying to catch up from a week at…
Underwhelming experiences with Google Wave
Took some time today to work with the new communication meme - Google Wave. I wouldn't call it a fundamentally…
#24: Here’s a thought…
An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:This or that?By and…
Commendable Comments (Part 3)
In a July 2008 blog post on Men with Pens (one of the Top 10 Blogs for Writers 2009), James…
Join the real movers and shakers in Washington!
Here’s a news flash! The epicenter of advanced information technology is moving this weekend from Silicon Valley to the US…
Leading Change? Know Your Entry Point
Effective change leaders know that there is no “single way” to move through the process of change. There are various…
No Money, No Problem!
I just returned from a business trip to India. I landed in Mumbai on October 2nd, a Friday and accidentally…
DQ-Tip: “…Go talk with the people using the data”
Data Quality (DQ) Tips is an OCDQ regular segment. Each DQ-Tip is a clear and concise data quality pearl of…
Tips on surviving R
John Mount from Win-Vector LLC gave a very interesting and entertaining talk at this week's Bay Area User Group Meeting,…