Surveys Continue to Rank R #1 for Data Mining
KDnuggets recently posted its annual poll on data mining software, and the R language retains its #1 ranking as the most…
Olympics Sentiment on Facebook: Positive Thoughts Only Please!
Those of us who do social media research know that the kinds of opinions you see in Facebook are often…
Spurring Growth in the UK Economy with Data Analysis
At a time when the UK is engulfed in Olympics excitement, it’s easy to overlook other items on the news…
Cloud and Business Transformation: This time, it’s different.
The cloud may not be delivering everything being promised, but it is nonetheless a disruptive force to which enterprises, service…
Step Into the Smarter Planet Time Machine! For a little Friday…
Step Into the Smarter Planet Time Machine!For a little Friday Fun, try one of these three settings: Step Into the…
Product Information Management Is Hot for Business
Ventana Research has just released our 2012 Value Index for Product Information Management (PIM), in which we evaluate the competency and maturity…
How Much Big Data is Too Much?
With storage costs plummeting and sophisticated software approaches to mining Big Data, it appears that it is increasingly cost effective…
The 8 Laws of Dashboard Design: This Is Not an 80’s Rave
There is a right balance to strike between creating beautiful dashboards and creating informative dashboards. Many of the rules of…
Test, Learn, Adapt: Using Analytics to Improve Public Policy
Ben Goldacre of Bad Science fame has co-written a UK Cabinet Office paper on how to improve government policy through…
Venture capitalists heart software.
Summary: Software startups and growth companies received $2.3 billion in funding from investors during the second quarter of 2012 —…