In dead bird vs. flow chart, bird wins
So many BI flow charts resemble the view out my hotel window in Las Vegas on the rooftop just below:…
Bailout Poem
Two kids were talking in the park, and they played a game. Who was the tougher guy, What is your…
Who’s the main competitor to the new method? What’s the catch?
The solution we are talking about in these posts is DIFFERENT and gives added value to other products as it…
SAS: Great Revenues in a Bad Economy
Jim Goodnight, the CEO of SAS, is happy. Not only did Gartner rank his company as a leader in the…
Declining Business Intelligence Jobs in 2009?
For some time now, I have used Monster job searches to gauge demand for Business Intelligence technologies. What I failed…
Data Mining Research Updated
I’m happy to inform you that Data Mining Research (www.dataminingblog.com) is updated! The blog is now on Wordpress and self-hosted…
Another view: maybe IT doesn’t want to be aligned to the business
Geek & Poke’s Oliver Widder responded to my recent post on “Business-IT alignment is dead,” and comments that in some…
A Game at Hell’s Gate
Let’s say you lived the life of a gambler and now, dead, you are standing at the gates of hell…
More Matlab/IB Code
Here is some more Matlab code to interact with Interactive Brokers' API. Check the previous tutorial on connecting Matlab to…
Survivorship Bias
Survivorship bias is a simple idea but it's a good time to bring it up after the previous notes on…