How NOAA uses R to forecast river flooding.
Thanks to the lower-than-usual snowfall over most of the US this past winter, there's low risk of major flooding as the…
20 Years of BI
The older we get, the faster time goes by. Experts say this is because we respond to novel events while…
Social sentiment matters!
Social sentiment matters -- customer opinions, attitudes, and emotions -- rants and raves that affect corporate reputation, provide valuable market…
Business Intelligence Implementation – How to Guarantee Your Success
Organizations often start their sophisticated Business Intelligence implementation with aspirational and competitive goals in an attempt to meet their business…
There Are 2 Ways To Make Large Datasets Useful…
I’ve spent the majority of my career building technologies that try to do useful things with large datasets.*One of the…
Why a Chargeback Model for Private Cloud May Be Problematic
While the economics of public cloud may be fairly clear for many organizations, public cloud is a murky area.
Because It’s the Weekend: Visualizing Ocean Currents
In yesterday's post about the visualization of sailing ship data, some of the commenters (and me, too!) wondered about the…
IBM Will Take Varicent for Sales Performance Management
In an unexpected announcement this morning, IBM announced its intent to acquire Varicent to enter the sales performance management market. For IBM…
