Ensuring quality data from service providers
For those of us that have lived, eaten, and slept with data quality and data management it is hard to…
TDWI in San Diego
Last week I spent most of my time at TDWI in San Diego getting caught up on the latest from…
Datamonitor Group to Integrate its Three Technology Businesses under Ovum Brand
Datamonitor Group announced the integration of its three technology businesses (Butler Group, Datamonitor Technology and Ovum) under the Ovum brand…
SAP’s Sustainability Dashboards
The SAP’s Sustainability Report web site provides a great example of how business intelligence can help with sustainability reporting and analysis.…
Norbert Fuhr’s Probability Ranking Principle for Interactive Information Retrieval
The other day, I was talking with someone about the challenges of evaluating interactive information retrieval (IIR) systems, and he…
Call-For-Speakers: Predictive Analytics World, Feb 16-17 in San Francisco
The next upcoming Predictive Analytics World is October 20-21, 2009, in Washington DC – see the full program here –…
Pooh, Data Analyst
Obviously Data Quality is an important issue. But so is good communication and having a good data analyst around!After story…
Access Denied
Think back to the early part of this decade… you probably worked for a company that restricted internet access, either…
Public Expression, Liability, and Anonymity
A colleague just sent me a link to a story about a Twitter user being sued for a tweet. At…
Analytics Ascendant, Part 2: The Limits of Predictive Modeling
In my last post on predictive modeling (4 August 2009) I used the recent announcement that the Netflix Prize appears…
