Analysts As Rock Stars? Don’t Be A One Hit Wonder!
What a change a few decades makes! When first starting my career as an analyst, I had no illusions about…
BI Business Value – Timeliness or Consistency, Part 1
Over the past few years, we've heard increasingly that business needs ever more up-to-the-minute information to compete effectively. First mover…
The Human Factor Continually Confounds Probability Models
With four weeks to go in the 2011 Major League Baseball season, the probability of the Boston Red Sox of…
There’s a Lot to Like about R
I once heard John Chambers (the inventor of the S language, and member of the R Core Group) say, "Show…
Big Data: We Have the Technology, but Not the Vision
There’s been plenty said about how the power of data analytics will drive efficiency and new opportunities for today’s and…
Tackling Human Intelligence
I was drawn to the semantic web and semantic technologies because of the potential benefit to each of us. There…
PARTNERS 2011 – what a great success!
What a great success! The 2011 Teradata PARTNERS User Group Conference & Expo is now history and by any…
Mixed Feelings About Agile
As I read and commented on Mike Gualtieri’s post on Agile, my mixed feelings about Agile burst into my che
Foundation of Social Business: Defining Social and Enterprise Text Analytics
Normally, I steer clear of defining terms, primarily because of the term “exceptions”. There are exceptions to every rule so…