Social Media Monitoring – Analyzing the Unexpected Results of Social Conversations

The impact of social media on our lives, and on our businesses has been remarkable. The full extent of how…

Jennifer Roberts
5 Min Read

R and Hadoop: Step-by-step Tutorials

At the recent Big Data Workshop held by the Boston Predictive Analytics group, airline analyst and R user Jeffrey Breen gave a step-by-step…

DavidMSmith
2 Min Read

On Text Analytics vs Machine Translation

 I've made an interesting observation recently while talking to people about Thinkudo Enlighten. It regards the misunderstanding between Text Analytics…

Ken Hu
4 Min Read

Making Love with Data: Avinash Kaushik’s Strata 2012 Keynote

Just watch the presentation, which stole the show at Strata 2012. The written word cannot do justice to Avinash’s passion…

Daniel Tunkelang
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Social Media Analytics Tools Need Better SEO-Impact Reporting

Radian6 and other monitoring platforms need to improve their reporting of the SEO  impact / ROI of social media engagement.

Editor SDC
3 Min Read

The 4 Biggest Problems with Big Data

People are buzzing about the promise of big data. That’s because 

Brett Stupakevich
4 Min Read

The Power of Customer Decision Management

A few weeks ago Rob Brosnan wrote a nice piece on the Forrester blog – Is it time for Customer…

JamesTaylor
3 Min Read

The Unbearable Lightness of Multitenancy in the Cloud

If y’all are not in the mood to listen to a (well reasoned, researched, educated and well-timed) rant, move along.  …

EstebanKolsky
9 Min Read

INSA Report: Cloud Computing: Risks, Benefits, and Mission Enhancement for the Intelligence Community

On 13 march 2012, the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) released a report culminating a years worth of interviews…

BobGourley
5 Min Read

Moneyball, a Must-watch Movie for the Business Analytics Savvy

Every Business Analytics consultant should watch the movie Moneyball (2011). This movie is indeed one of the best movies I’ve…

SmartAnalytics
8 Min Read