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…
How to Achieve Equilibrium Between Business Users and IT
A geochemist named James Lovelock once theorized that a fundamental characteristic of all life is not just the need to…
Forget Word Clouds, Celebrity Clouds
Guess the difference between these two ‘Celebrity Clouds’? Guess the difference between these two ‘Celebrity Clouds’?Most of you know how…
Are You Reporting What You Can?…Or What You Should?
Too many organizations are missing opportunities to use their data and analytics as a competitive advantage. Often leaders believe that…
Benefits of Embedded Business Intelligence
You lay lazily, your scruffy hair half submerged in the marshmallow-like curvature of your pillow, lethargically following the steadfast progression…