A Cautionary Tale of Data Governance
Data governance is for geeks?Think that master data management is boring and never gets the attention of your senior management?< Data governance…
Why Bad IT Infrastructure Hits Your Data Business Hard
A recent report by research firm Gartner provided a very surprising result: over 60% of employees surveyed worldwide reported to…
Hacking Happiness: How to Give Big Data a Direction
We live in a world where we think that the more data we create, the more happier we are. We…
Balanced Teams Necessary for Big Data Initiatives
Due to the amount of time that people in the tech and enterprise worlds spend talking about big data and…
Marshall Rose and the Internet of Things
If you are trying to have more of an autonomous home, you might be interested in taking a look at…
Hadoop 2.0: Yes, It’s a Big Deal
In Too Big to Ignore, I wrote about the increasing importance of technologies and systems designed to handle non-relational data.…
Automate Your Way to Profitability: 5 Things You’ll Never Have to Do Again Once You Have CRM
Precious time saved automating your sales and customer relations is time that can be spent winning new, more profitable business.…
The Type of Data Marketers Need from IT
With big data becoming more prevalent, even in smaller businesses thanks to big data services, the IT department of many…
The Gaming Industry Turns to Big Data to Improve the Gaming Experience
World wide there are more than two billion video game players in the world and Electronic Arts, who has 275…
A Small Experiment with Twitter’s Language Detection Algorithm
Some time a go I captured quite a lot of geo-located tweets for a spatial statistics project I'm doing. The…