Tips for Hiring Data Scientists
This post is contributed by Frank Lo, an experienced data science professional and friend of Burtch Works. Frank is currently…
Microsoft Shows Off More than ERP with Dynamics
Convergence is the Microsoft Dynamics business software user group’s meeting. Dynamics’ core applications are mainly in the accounting and ERP…
How To Maximize Performance and Scalability Within Your Hadoop Architecture
In its infancy, Apache Hadoop primarily supported the functions of search engines. Today, it is used throughout dozens of industries…
Collaboration in the Cloud: The Continuity Advantage
Real-time communication doesn’t always seem quite fast enough, not in an economy where the most successful businesses have to not…
For Rent: Lots Of Space (Not Digital)
It was Andrew Carnegie who advised, “Invest in land. They’re not making any more of it!” Of course those were…
Text Mining and Pronouns
If there’s one piece of advice I can offer you, both for better text mining and better writing, it is…
Architecting Big Data Solutions
In this article I would like to outline, at a high level, the overall thought process for "architecting" big data…
How Microsoft is Protecting the Privacy of its Customers from the NSA
Over the past year, the spotlight has been on the NSA and its spying techniques. It seems like we're getting…
Analyze Data with Bubble Plots in SAS Visual Analytics
Bubble plots, also known as Bubble Charts, are great for analyzing multiple axis of data in SAS Visual Analytics. If…
How Organisations Should Deal With the Big Data Knowledge Gap of Consumers
Today there was a lot of rumour in The Netherlands because Dutch Bank ING is considering selling insights from data…

