It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! No, It’s Just a Data Scientist.

What happens when you saddle one person with the work of three? Often, none of the work is done well,…

metabrown
5 Min Read

Google+ Is Like 401K For Search

I'm trying to figure out which camera to go for: the GoPro or the Contour. When I search on Google…

matthewhurst
2 Min Read

SAS BI Dashboard Rocks My Google Analytics Data Analysis

I have to say I’m in love with the new SAS BI Dashboard and it’s many features. It really brings…

Tricia Aanderud
10 Min Read

Business Intelligence and Data Management Resources

Last week I was interviewed in an e-chat with Shawn Hessinger, AllAnalytics.Com,  about deploying BI tools to help build your…

Tricia Aanderud
1 Min Read

Improving Hadoop Performance with Optimization, CDH3 Update 3, and CDH4

Mahout is a machine learning library that will be included in CDH4

AlexOlesker
4 Min Read

Some Thoughts on Decision Terminology

An interesting thread over on LinkedIn got into a discussion of terminology and I thought I would share my opinion…

JamesTaylor
2 Min Read

Great Video on How Econometricians Think About Talent Data

Robert Yerex is one of the best labor-oriented econometrics folks in non-academic circles right now.  He presented at Wolfram’s technology conference last…

JeremyS
1 Min Read

Cloudera Day in DC

Carahsoft hosted a Cloudera

AlexOlesker
2 Min Read

5 Ways Cloud ‘Supercharges’ Enterprise Initiatives

Captain Query and Commander Spid are trapped in a multi-dimensional PowerPoint presentation on the planet of the Evil Cloud Salesmen...Evil…

JoeMcKendrick
3 Min Read