GSA USASearch Wins 2011 Government Big Data Solutions Award
The Government Big Data Solutions Award was established to highlight innovative solutions and facilitate the exchange of best practices, lessons…
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…
Self-Service Data Warehousing for Business People with SAP Information Composer
I started my career talking about self-service BI, with a product called “Skipper SQL” that let business people flexibly access…
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…
Entities, Relationships, and Semantics: Strata NY Panel on the State of Structured Search
Earlier this year, I had the privilege to moderate a panel at Strata New York 2011 on Entities, Relationships, and…
