How Craig Kessler Has His Pulse on ROI
I don’t remember when Craig Kessler first commented at AriWriter, but a recent Google search shows his name at the…
Stuck in First Gear
Big investments were made in recent years in IT. IBM, Oracle/Siebel and SAP lead the market and were successful not…
Do We Really Need More Data?
Stephen Few had another of his great posts on his Visual Business Intelligence blog - Do We Really Need More…
Inside Rohm and Haas’ Open Source Dashboard
In “Rohm and Haas and the ‘Open Source Dashboard," we noted that the big chemical company had deployed a low-cost…
Implementing e2.0
Implementing e2.0 initiatives is like managing any other software project but it is NOT the same in every aspect. Some…
Gapminder: Animating the World’s Data
Gapminder is non-profit organization that makes social, environmental and economic development data from all the countries of the world available and…
Digg Getting Faceted Search?
I’ve never really dug Digg (though I remember Dig Dug from the 80s), but I’m delighted to hear that they’ve…
More than just “The Usual Suspects” – Doing Due Diligence for DW and BI Tools
The publishing of Gartner’s Magic Quadrants or Forrester’s Waves is eagerly awaited by vendors in many IT categories, particularly those…
Would Vincent Van Gogh cut off his ear for Performance Management?
This week I presented seminars in Amsterdam and took some time to visit the Van Gogh Museum. It is a…
Why normalization matters with K-Means
A question about K-means clustering in Clementine was posted here. I thought I knew the answer, but took the opportunity…