Revenue, Supply & Demand: Effects of the 2011 Hard Drive Shortage
The recent hard drive shortage caused by this year’s extreme Thailand floods is said to continue its major impact through…
How Consumerization of Data Leads to Quality of Life Improvements
As data and analytics tools become more prevalent and easier for people of all walks of life to access, this…
The Next Generation BI Professional – Things Will Be Very Different
The next generation business intelligence professional is not one who has experienced complex deployments, lengthy project time frames and unpredictable…
What Does Apple’s Latest Purchase Mean?
I don't think anyone outside of the flash memory world had heard of Anobit before this week
List of Public Databases from the Washington Post
The Washington Post has put together an excellent list of publicly-accessible databases, ideal for analysis using the R language.
Revolution Newsletter: December 2011
The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news section is below, and you can read the full December edition (with…
First Look – Starview
Starview Inc. have just launched their new Business Analytics and Optimization Platform (BAOP). Growing out of a long standing consulting…
Are Data Scientists the Next Masters of the Universe?
Back in the late 1970s, traders buying and selling mortgages were pushed aside for new masters of the universe—“quants” or…
Stop Mining Data!
In some recent planning and architectural discussions I've become aware of the significant difference between reasoning about data and reasoning…