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…
Bigger Than Big Data? Mobile User Expectations
How big data is shaping mobile user expectationsBy Jeff Hasen How big data is shaping mobile user expectationsBy Jeff HasenHipcricket Chief…
Political Revolutions on Twitter, Visualized with R
Twitter has become a powerful medium for organizing and communicating with factions during popular uprisings: the crisis in Egypt, the…
The Data Geek’s Guide to Happiness in 2013
When it comes to happiness, why don't we do what we do best as data geeks, collect data on it,…
Decision Automation: How To Augment Predictive Analytics with Human Intelligence
This article examines the perfect combination of automated decisioning with advanced analytics and the human interaction.Let’s start with a simple…
The Brave New World of Business Intelligence
We recently completed our benchmark research on next-generation business intelligence. Ventana Research looks at next-generation BI as a function of traditional…