Paul Kedrosky, “the man who counts ladders”
Howard Dresner is a celebrity in the business intelligence industry, but most people at last year’s Tableau conference didn’t even…
Freakonomics and Your Data
In the August, 2005 issue of BusinessWeek, Michael Hopkins explored the best seller Freakonomics and it's authors' strategy for using…
Black Swan Alert: Low Tech Links Devastate High Tech Supply Chains
Find your supply chain best practices checklist. Just-in-time processes? Check. Optimum sourcing strategies? Check. Lean logistics? Check. Best-in-class technologies? Check. Black swan…
Using Sentiment to Understand Your Consumer & Your Competitors
One of our senior analysts, Peter Knoblock, wrote up a great post about sentiment: Sentiment – A Potential Mirage on…
Top 14 Benefits of Business Intelligence – Part II
The first of half of this investigation into the benefits of Business Intelligence (BI) – Yellowfin: Top 14 Benefits of…
Statistical Rules of Thumb, Part III: Always Visualize the Data
As I perused Statistical Rules of Thumb again, as I do from time to time, I came across this gem.…
Statistics Poetry by Geeks and Nerds
I couldn’t help myself. The creative juices started to flow and poetry spewed out of me like warm icing from…
