Death By a Thousand Analytics

Donald Farmer, now of Qliktech, offered to the Boulder BI Brain Trust (BBBT) last week that what we in "BI"…

Barry Devlin
7 Min Read

An Analytics Story Problem: When will two trains collide?

I recently presented a keynote presentation at the annual conference of the joint Ohio chapters of the Institute of Management…

GaryCokins
4 Min Read

How They Fit Together: Bell Curves, Bayesian Inference and Black Swans

Probability is defined as the possibility, chance or odds of likelihood that a certain event or occurrence will take place…

paulbarsch
5 Min Read

5 Sure-Fire Ways to Use Analytics to Become a Social Business

Many executives see social media as another way to connect with customers and prospects.Indeed, most organizations have created social media…

Brett Stupakevich
5 Min Read

Splunk: Big Data Machine for Operational Intelligence

Splunk recently entered the financial markets as a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: SPLK) and also entered a new phase in its…

Mark Smith
10 Min Read

Is it a tech bubble?

Every week a “we are in a tech bubble” article seems to come out in a major newspaper or blog.…

ChrisDixon
6 Min Read

What Is Hadoop? Here is a 101 with Mike Olson

Every technologist I know has been working to learn more about Hadoop. I bet you are already somewhat familiar with…

BobGourley
2 Min Read

Data Mining Interview: Meta Brown

Meta Brown, General Manager of Analytics at LinguaSys, has kindly accepted to answer a few questions for Data Mining Research.…

SandroSaitta
3 Min Read

Does Apple Need Ten Years of Trustworthy Computing?

Researchers at Kapersky Lab recently concluded that Apple is an entire decade behind Microsoft at malware protection, pointing to the…

AlexOlesker
4 Min Read

Social Technology and Real Business Transformation

I managed a few minutes out of my schedule last week to stop by the Yammer Tour event in San…

mfauscette
7 Min Read