DQ is 1/3 Process Knowledge + 1/3 Business Knowledge + 1/3 Intuition
Sitting in any data quality competency centre, or working on any data warehousing support team, there are times when you…
The MalStone Benchmark, TeraSort and Clouds For Data Intensive Computing
The TPC Benchmarks have played an important role in comparing databases and transaction processing systems. Currently, there are no similar…
#11: Here’s a thought…
An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:The eternal quest: better…
Charlene Li: The Future of Social Networks
Charlene Li formerly of Forrester and author of Groundswell (with colleague Josh Bernoff) gave an interesting talk at the SF…
Five Megatrends in Enterprise IT
Like Yogi Berra said: “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” This is especially true about technology. Things…
The Problem with the Relational Database (Part 2) – Predictability
Introduction The Problem with the Relational Database (Part 1 ) –The Deployment Model I met with a friend of mine…
The Problem with the Relational Database (Part 1 ) –The Deployment Model
This is the first detailed post in a series I am doing focusing on the issues that exist today with…
News, Search Experience, and Value
I’ve been known to spar with Jeff Jarvis about Google’s role in the present and future of journalism, but I…
Book. Is. Done.
I couldn’t think of a better way to start a holiday weekend than by uploading the revised chapters of my…
Apps for America2: Data.gov Visualization Challenge
While researching how people plan on using the new data at Data.gov, I came across this competition sponsored by Google…
