Analytics and Hedgehogs: Lessons from the Tampa Bay Rays
The Tampa Bay Rays spend significantly less on payroll than some of the wealthier teams in Major League Baseball, but…
Selecting Big Data Sources for Predictive Analytics
Why is big data valuable? Because it’s big? Not really. In fact, very large datasets always come with a very…
Willow Glass: Go Ahead, Fold Your Tablet in Half
Corning – the "glass company" that came up with the telescope mirror for the Palomar Observatory, lighter and tougher windshields,…
Stat Models, Astronomical Mysteries…and Business Data
If you look at the picture below (Pleiades constellation), you will see - with the naked eye - that many…
Zynga: A Big Data Company Masquerading as a Gaming Company
How much data does an online game developer like Zynga create and use on a daily basis? The answer is,…
Data Visualization: Storytelling, Skills, and Utility
I recently read an interview on the Harvard Business Review blog with Amanda Cox, who is a trained statistician and…
Key to Business Intelligence Success: Data Accuracy and Visibility
By now, most decision-makers have probably heard some success stories regarding business intelligence (BI) – how one company used it to cut costs,…
Big Data and the Big Opportunity to Reform Education
In big data terms, every human being is a rich resource. Students, from enrollment to grades to the clubs they…
Tracking Adwords Conversions in Salesforce: 6 Challenges
With the impending “end-of-life” of Salesforce for Google Adwords, I thought I’d dive a bit deeper into some of the…
Five BI and Analytics Takeaways from Gartner Summit 2013
The Gartner Summit in Grapevine, TX, this year was pretty fantastic, and Domo had a big presence there. But rather…