IBM Cognos Insight Focuses on Discovery and Exploratory Analytics
IBM’s Information on Demand conference last week took over the fifth-largest conference venue in the country at the Mandalay Bay and…
Mining for Gold in Your Data
Where to Dig and What to Look ForInfotech research giant Gartner defines data mining as the process of discovering meaningful…
Using Maturity Assessments to Improve Performance
The idea of devising and using maturity assessments to improve business performance has been a staple of management, functional and…
Yo-Yo Ma, Social Scientist
What can we learn from a cello player?By Roger WoodFounder (ART+DATA) Institute Traditional Chinese: 马友友 What can we learn from a…
Using Your Human Database to Select a Database
I had the pleasure of speaking with veteran data architecture expert, and Soliber.net columnist, Tcat Houser. I reached out to…
Advice for the Aspiring Data Scientist
It’s been well-documented throughout the blogosphere over the past few weeks, but every time I read it, I’m still a…
Thanks, Big Data: America’s Drinking Habits Predict the Election
Forget about which candidate has the most likes on Facebook or followers on Twitter. Who needs social networks when "big…
Tracking Hurricane Sandy with Open Data and R
Hurricane Sandy is shaping up to be a major, and very dangerous, meteorological event for the US's East coast. Naturally,…
The Big Data in Teradata
At the recent Teradata’s annual Partners user conference, the company outlined its expanding role as a provider distributed information architecture…
Analytics is Sexy: Let’s Make It Work!
I wrote earlier about this huge gap between talking about analytics and being able to actually make a large impact…