Metrics and Numbers You Should Know if You Want to Measure Social Media ROI
In a previous post I talked the importance of understanding that ROI is not only about a financial return but…
Integrating customer preferences
I was talking to an interesting company today – TOA Technologies (review tomorrow) – and as we were talking we…
Who Wants Yesterday’s Papers?
Times are hard, especially for the traditional media. In Europe and the United States, numerous printed publications are running deficits…
Everybody’s on the Phone
I accidently left my cell phone at home this past weekend while out running errands… needless to say, I went…
Google and Failure-Tolerant Cultures
I recently read Andrew Chen’s interesting post, Built to Fail: How companies like Google, IDEO, and 37signals build failure-tolerant systems…
Interactive stock visualizations with R
Jeroen Ooms, who recently completed his Masters in Statistics at Utrech University, has created an outstanding web-based drag-and-drop application for…
From Baby-Sitting to Adoption – a Data Governance Perspective
Yesterday, Thomas L. Friedman posted an interesting New York Times op-ed column entitled “From Baby-Sitting to Adoption” about U.S. policy…
Not All Google Critics Are Bigots
Jeff Jarvis wrote a post today entitled “Google bigotry,” in which he asserts that: Google has an image problem –…
#21: Here’s a thought…
An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:They just don’t get…
Interview: Mike Rote on Predictive Analytics
With fifteen years of service under his belt for Teradata, Mike Rote has seen lots of changes in the worlds…