Why BI Projects Fail and What To Do About it
This session was presented at Mastering BusinessObjects 2009 conference in Manly, Sydney. It covers the six main areas that most…
Data Mining Poll: Online Privacy
Since I’m applying behavioral targeting in online advertising, I’m curious to know what you think about privacy issues of such…
Why Statistics is the next sexy profession
Google's Chief Economist, Hal Varian, recently said, "The sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians." On the…
The Nine Circles of Data Quality Hell
“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.” In Dante’s Inferno, these words are inscribed above the entrance into hell. The…
Wordtree for Visual Text Exploration
Analytics can be all about having the right tool for the job. When your data is text, traditional analysis tools…
Open-source on Wall Street
Wall Street and Technology reported in an article earlier this month that investment banks, hedge funds and other financial institutions…
How Newspaper Mission Statements Could Change
The Dallas Morning News celebrated its 21st birthday in 1906 and general manager George Bannerman Dealey, according to the newspaper’s…
NYT Appoints a “Social Media Editor”
What’s a social media editor? I have no idea, but the New York Times now has one! As reported in…
Allowing Your Brand to Look Bad so it Can Look Better
On Social Media Your Brand Must be Hot Pink/Orange This Memorial Day weekend I was up at Lime Rock Race…
BI Team is Integral Part of Green IT Initiatives
Gartner just put out the results of a recent survey that shows more than one third of the respondents plan…
