The IT-ization of Consumers
There continues to be a lot of discussion of the trend that's sometimes called "consumerization of IT." I think the…
SnapLogic: Making Big Data Integration as a Service a Hadoop Reality
SnapLogic, a provider of data integration in the cloud, last week announced Big Data-as-a-Service to address businesses’ needs t SnapLogic, a provider…
R Script Tracks Bookies’ Favorites for the Next Pope
Tired of manually running a python script to scrape the latest bookmaker odds on the next Pope, R user AJ…
Is Hadoop Knowledge a Must-Have for Today’s Big Data Scientist?
Finding data scientists and other highly technical resources that understand the complexity of big data is one of the most…
Big Data and Predictive Analytics in Video Games
As a gamer, I was especially interested to see what Electronic Art's Rajat Taneja had to say about big data…
Tufte Shares Wisdom for Data Presenters
For a famous person, Edward Tufte is adept at avoiding the papparazzi. You probably know this iconic Tufte teaching picture.…
4 Retail BI Lessons to Learn from Google’s Nexus Fail
I’m a frugal kind of guy, and yet I can’t stand to waste money on something so low quality that…
Investing in Data Center Efficiencies: Part One
Do you know what the greatest operating expense is for data centers? Energy costs. Steadily rising over the years, the…
SQL Visualization in the Spreadsheet
SQL is a database query and programming language for retrieving, updating, and managing the data from relational database. SQL was…
Outsourcing Analytics vs. DIY: Tips for Executives
If your organization has not yet embraced analytics, you may be wondering “What’s the best way to get started?” A…
