Adventures in Data Profiling (Part 1)
In my popular post Getting Your Data Freq On, I explained that understanding your data is essential to using it…
Interview: Paul Barsch on a Zero Latency Future
Paul Barsch enjoys communicating—as a writer and speaker—so it wasn’t hard to get him to talk about his two posts,…
Lessons from LucidEra on BI for the mid-market
Here are two tips from LucidEra veterans Ken Rudin and Darren Cunningham about BI in the mid-market: Forget “freemium” —…
Innovation + Affordability = Enterprise Intelligence
Who needs intelligence? It’d be hard to find a company that says it doesn’t. But when it comes to the…
Is Information Alive?
It's a new week and I thought we'd start it with a discussion to get our brains working after the…
Are Academic Conferences Broken? Can We Fix Them?
I’d hoped to get through all of the SIGIR 2009 Industry Track before blogging about anything else (such as Yahoo!…
Is Amazon really that cool as we keep saying?
For all that buzz around Amazon’s sophisticated analytics and its targeted book recommendations, it is worth asking in Kevin Hillstrom’s…
VectorWise
I was fortunate enough to speak with Marcin Zukowski earlier about VectorWise. If you missed it, VectorWise came out of…
IBM’s Secret Upside for SPSS Acquisition – Smart…
IBM’s Secret Upside for SPSS Acquisition – Smart Infrastructure | BNET Technology Blog My colleague Michael Hickins was right when…
Predictive analytics turn uncertainty into usable probability
Following on from yesterday’s post on analytics, let’s talk about predictive analytics. Another phrase I picked up while working at…
