Top Business Intelligence dashboard design best practices (Part One)
Don’t you hate it when people gripe, whine and bemoan but don’t offer a solution to the source of angst?…
5 Data Analytics Tools You Need for Marketing
In O’Reilly Media's book “Beautiful Data,” the authors suggest that few things are more powerful than today’s data metrics tools.…
Forecasting: standard methods
To continue the first post of a series on forecasting, let’s discuss standard methods used for predicting time series. The…
Why Context Matters – Forget Real-Time, Achieve Right-Time
The Real-Time Hype Is Filled With FlawsThe hype around big data, social media, and mobility has many folks imagining the…
The iPhone 5? So what?
With an updated look, and upgrades all over (including new earbuds) the iPhone 5 is sure to make a splash…
Social Media in the Enterprise: Adoption in 2012 [Infographic]
There is no doubt that the social media “phenomenon” has been embraced by most average Web users. But from Twitter,…
Two Fun Big Data Videos Every Techie Should Watch
With this post I would like to introduce two videos I recommend any enterprise technologist watch. Both are from the…
Predictive Model Deployment and Execution Made Easy with PMML
Developed by the Data Mining Group (DMG), an independent, vendor led committee, PMML provides an open standard for representing data…
Budgeting Time on a Modeling Project
Within the time allotted for any empirical modeling project, the analyst must decide how to allocate time for various aspects…
The Right Stuff: Final Episode in the “Potholes of BI” Series
Thanks to inputs from more than a dozen BI experts at QlikTech, during the last couple of weeks I’ve written…

