Change is here. Goodbye to Yahoo!, and Hello to Barnes and Noble [4]
Things sure have been quiet on the blog. Turns out, I was spending many of my spare cycles on some…
7 Mistakes In Enterprise Data Management You Can’t Afford to Make: Speaking at DAMA WI & DAMA Chicago
I will be speaking at DAMA WI on Tuesday, 18 Aug 2009 about Enterprise Data Management: & Mistakes You Can’t…
The General Theory of Data Quality
In one of the famous 1905 Annus Mirabilis Papers On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, Albert Einstein published what would…
People, Process, and Technology
In every BI vendor’s marketing material is the traditional People, Process, Technology venn diagram. The promise is that leveraging the…
James Taylor’s Explanation of Analytics
James Taylor, one of the IT analyst thought leaders of the broadening scope of business intelligence, has written a thoughtful…
3 Easy Checks to Ensure Quality Analytics Reporting
Are you new to business intelligence, predictive analytics or analysis in general. With all the talk about data visualization and…
Social Strength
You can learn a lot from a blogger; not only does the practice help you become a better communicator it’s…
Taking a Competitive Snapshot
Compete.com is a web analytics startup that has some interesting features that are worth mentioning as they: claim to have a…
MDM: Subject-Area Data Integration
I frequently describe MDM as subject area data integration. The whole point of mastering and managing data is to simplify…
#20: Here’s a thought…
An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:Prediction + understandingIn my…