R/Finance 2009 roundup
The first international conference dedicated to the use of R in the finance industry, R/Finance 2009, was a great success.…
Driving Marketing Effectiveness and Efficiency from Within using Social Media
I wonder if the real value of social media for B2B marketing is not the external use to drive sales…
EDW09 Industry Data Models – Life Savers or Money Sinks? How Do You Decide?
I’m attending George McGeachie’s very early presentation (7:15AM is way too early for me at a conference – I’m already…
Use the Force – A Brief Guide to Use Case Complexity
In Chapter 1 of Alistair Cockburn’s “Writing Effective Use Cases,” which I have to believe is the book most often…
“Why do CFOs and CEOs hate IT? – ERP” – Thomas Wailgum at CIO.com
This is my second article in response to pieces by Thomas Wailgum at CIO.com (you can read the first one…
#7: Here’s a thought…
An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:First, the decisionThe first…
Confronting a False Positive
I received a request to explain false positive matches; perhaps this tale based on my brother’s experiences will help.Imagine that…
The scope of IT’s responsibility when businesses go bad
Chief Information Officer (CIO) Network This article is another relating to a discussion on LinkedIn.com. As with my earlier piece,…
Project Checkmate A research collaboration (with the Scripps…
Project Checkmate A research collaboration (with the Scripps Research Institute) with the objective to anticipate, manage and contain infectious diseases.…
BI for retail
Today BVI Networks announced the release of RetailNEXT, a retail focused BI solution. Aside from looking at more information than…