How Mobile Analytics Can Help Marketers
As we gear up for the release of the “Moneyball” movie next week, let’s start this mobile analytics post with…
Benefits of Private Cloud Computing: Compliant & Cost-Effective
When it comes to security and compliance, private cloud computing trumps the public cloud. According to a 2011 study by the…
Trillion Triple Semantic Database
The Semantic Web captures the semantics, or meaning, of data, and machines are enabled to interact with that meta data.…
Stalking the Data-Curious Culture – SDC Reflections
This is the first monthly post in the SDC Reflections series where I gather examples from recently contributed articles to…
Lyza – Supporting Collaborative Process in Decision Making
Lyzasoft's Scott Davis returned to the Boulder BI Brain Trust (BBBT) last Friday with Lyza version 3.0. Here's my key…
Creating a Sentimental Social Media Analytics Strategy
For many people or organizations new to social media, sentiment seems like a good place to start an analytics approach.…
Analytics Valley: Big Data, Data Scientists and SAS Programmers
Tom Davenport reported an observation that Silicon Valley is becoming more analytical since companies in the Valley such as Google,…
How to Program MapReduce Jobs in Hadoop with R
MapReduce is a powerful programming framework for efficiently processing very large amounts of data stored in the Hadoop distributed filesystem.
Reference Domains Part II: Modelling Classifications
This is the second article in the series on working with reference domains, also commonly referred to as classifications. In…
Reference Domains Part III: Collecting Classifications
This is part three in the series about reference domains (a.k.a. classifications). In the first part we looked at the…

