Transforming Your Business with Analytics – a Series
I want to share with you the collective wisdom of over 50 companies that have transformed their business using analytics.…
Sybase Analyst Summit Takeaways
Last week I attended Sybase‘s annual analyst summit. The first since the formal SAP acquisition was jam packed with customer…
Why Medians May Not be the Message – for Talent Data
I was reading a piece in the Journal this morning on a scientific debate regarding an Alzheimer’s study. The debate…
Man vs. Machine Contests: Forget “Level” Playing Fields
Just got back from Seattle on a red-eye, and I take off for Paris on another red-eye Sunday night. I'm…
Governance of the People? Of the Data? For the …
Just read Julie Hunt’s blog on the connections between business process and data governance. Interesting. http://preview.tinyurl.com/proc1hunt. In it, she quotes Rob…
What Do You Mean by BI?
For some reason the topic of “best practice BI” has been popping up very frequently of late. In the past…
Empowerment for All to See
The third CTO Road Show is starting start next week in the Swiss cities of Bern and Zurich, followed by…
Data Mining Book Review: Data Mining with R
Luis Torgo, interviewed on Data Mining Research, has recently published a book on data mining entitled “Data Mining with R,…
Experts, Fortune-tellers and Bookmakers: Zero Points!
If you ever doubted the quality of “expert opinions” and the predictive value of the odds of bookmakers, this year’s…