Growth in data-related jobs
At job-search site indeed.com, you can take a look at trends in the use of keywords used in job postings.…
The Ideology Divide Between Intuition and Fact-based Decisions
In the USA we witness an ideology divide between its two political parties – the Republicans and Democrats. I will…
Social Business Intelligence Q & A with Yellowfin CEO Glen Rabie
The use of Social and Collaborative Business Intelligence (BI) will allow information to be directly linked to decisions made within…
Using R and Motion Charts to analyze financial data
We've noted before that with the RGoogleVis package, it's easy to make motion charts in R, and create a web-based…
Fast Logistic Regression on Big Data with Commodity Hardware? No Problem.
You might think that doing advanced statistical analysis on Big Data is out of reach for those of us without…
How Open is Too Open?
If you’re in the technology or information management spaces, you’ve probably heard the axiom “Information wants to be free.” While…
Database Research Pioneer Michael Stonebraker
I just received an update from data base research and technology pioneer Michael Stonebraker and will be using insights from…
