Will Dwinnell: 6 Reasons You Hired the Wrong Data Miner
By Will Dwinnell By Will DwinnellAs is in any discipline, talent within data mining community varies greatly. Generally, business people and others…
2013 1H Conferences in Social Media, BI, Big Data, and Sentiment Applications
As a sometime conference organizer, I need to track events that will compete for the attention of my target audience.…
Will The Big Data Bubble Burst In 2013?
I am going to go out on a limb, put a prediction in writing, and hope that I’m not eating…
PCI & HIPAA Data Breaches of 2012: Lessons Learned
Here’s a review of the top 2012 data breaches within both the PCI and HIPAA compliant industries, and a quick…
Data Mining Book Review: Future Ready
If you are working on forecasting, you may be interested in the book from Steve Morlidge and Steve Player: Future…
Big Data and Crowdsourcing in Humanitarian Crisis Mapping
Last Thursday, I attended a webinar that was called Monitoring Humanitarian Crises in the Digital Age: Crisis Mapping, Crowdsourcing, and Satellite…
Broadening the Reach of Self-Service BI
The necessity of self-service is obvious once you realize that traditional BI has limited reach within user communities. For example,…
The Case for Data Hoarding
Do we really need all of this data?It’s a question that I’ve heard more than a few times in my…
Google’s Year in Local Search
At the beginning of the year, Google's results page for looked like this: At the beginning of the year, Google's…
Real-Time Pricing Algorithms – For or Against Us?
In 2012, Cyber Monday sales climbed 30% over the previous year’s results. Indeed, Cyber Monday benefits both online retailers as…