Predictive Policing with Big Data
Police Departments nationwide have been using data and statistics to drive policing since the 90s in an approach founded by…
Management Education in the Age of Big Data
What if business schools based their entire curriculum on the fundamentals of business analytics? McKinsey estimates that the demand for…
Target, Pregnancy, and Predictive Analytics, Part II
This is part II of my thoughts on the New York Times article "How Companies Learn Your Secrets".
Challenges of Chinese Natural Language Processing – Segmentation
As the Chinese consumer market takes the center stage in the world economy, the rush to adapt business tools for…
The Uncanny Valley of Big Data
Three articles in recent weeks have touched on an important issue related to Big Data and predictive analytics: sometimes, the…
Data Discovery Tools Are Pitch-Perfect for Pro-Ams
I recently read Seth Godin’s We All Are Weird, a book about marketing and the way society is changing. Being…
How would you describe the cloud in 3 words?
We put this question to the good people on Quora to see what people thought were the core principles behind…
How the Consumerization of Data Leads to Additional Quality of Life Improvements
In the third post of our series about how people everywhere can use data and tools to make the world…
What Lessons Can IT and Analysts Learn from the Cinema Industry?
With the upcoming motion picture Academy Awards on February 26, this made me think about lessons and observations about what…
Analyzing Enterprise Text? Don’t Use Sentiment Out of Context
Broadly Applied Sentiment Analysis May Lead to Unrequited Love Enterprise text is similar to social media data in that in…