Course: Financial Data Modeling and Analysis in R
The University of Washington is holding a web-based course which will be of interest to anyone who wants to learn…
Designing the Ultimate Business Intelligence Tool
A short time ago I was contacted regarding a blog by Jaime Brugueras, discussing what he feels is lacking in…
EMR Market Trends: Cloud Computing and Economics
According to Accenture’s study of healthcare software, hardware and services companies, the global market for EMR systems is expected to…
Double Dutch – Greenplum and Teradata
In 2004, Teradata withdrew from the public TPC-H data warehousing benchmark. At the time we took a certain amount of…
When Is ‘Big Data’ Too Big for Analytics?
Apologies for the lack of recent posts. I've been *very* busy on many Data Mining Analytics projects in my role…
New Insights from Text Analytics
Text Analytics has gained the attention it deserves in the past few years. Sentiment Analysis is perhaps the most frequently…
The Federal Government’s Secret 1966 Cloud Computing Plan
Even as far back as 45 years ago, the US federal government was debating and struggling with ways to consolidate…
Vizualize.me – Hey, someone finally got the “let’s kill all the resumes” thing right
For at least 15 years, I’ve not taken seriously the idea that a resume could be replaced. Why? Not because…
Top-Down Business Intelligence
“A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get…