MicroStrategy Raises the Ante on Mobile, Social and Cloud Innovation
MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor has a keen sense of where things are headed. He sees mobile and social as the…
IBM to Acquire Star Analytics for Financial Data Integration
IBM this week announced its pending acquisition of the Star Analytics product portfolio. Star Analytics is a privately held company that offers…
Forecasting Is Harder Than It Looks
Want to make weather forecasting look good? Want to make weather forecasting look good? Compare it to predicting the economy. So…
Big Analytics Rather Than Big Data
The past year has been dominated by Big Data. What it might mean and the way you might look at…
See the Future with Your CRM
We know that you’d like to see growth and improve your sales forecasting processes, and with the right CRM solution, you…
Big Data Scientists Are Bridge Builders
Kathryn Kelly recently put up an excellent post titled Data Scientists Not Required: Big Data Is About Business Users. I commented…
Eyewitnesses Get It Wrong: An Argument for Data-Driven Decision Making
A nighttime murder took place in 1991 in Linwood, California. Half a dozen teenaged eyewitnesses picked a man out of…
10 Ways to Gain Targeted Insights Into User Behavior
When optimizing your website for more conversion, there are several factors that matter. Some things, such as the usability and…
Visualizing Networks in R: Arc Diagrams and Hive Plots
Arc diagrams are an alternative way of representing two-dimensional graphs. Rather than scattering the nodes across the page connected by…
Market Research Agencies Can Thrive in the Big Data Era
Lately I have found it impossible to scan my numerous RSS feeds without the term "Big Data" staring me in…