The Cloud and Physical Security
We’ve talked at length about cloud computing and cybersecurity, but cloud computing can also have an effect on physical security…
Automate Data Remediation to Find Dirty Data Before Your Customers Do
I teach a graduate course on data warehousing at Northeastern University in Boston. Unlike the people I teach at clients’…
Leveraging Customer Data to Drive Business Decisions
Interesting panel with folks from the Venetian, Marriott and Nextag discussing customer intelligence. First they were asked about their use…
4 Ways to Prevent Dirty Data From Spoiling Analytics
Change is good — except when change means you are constantly revising and checking databases, unsure of whether records are…
Tom Davenport’s Culture of Analytics
On March 15 in San Francisco, Tom Davenport addressed a plenary session at Data Driven Business Week, calling his presentation The…
Forecasting Lessons from Heathrow’s Snowpocalypse
As evidenced by lessons learned from the Heathrow Winter Resilience Inquiry, when it comes to accurately forecasting future events, it’s…
Exterior Design, Part II: Frequency
To continue the theme of designing for an ever changing set of requirements, I wanted to talk about the second…
Play Ball! NJIT Professor Uses Math Analytics to Project 2011 MLB Winners
Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants should win their divisions, while the Atlanta Braves will take the…
As Data.gov Goes Dark, 50 Startups Prepare to Take its Place
the fiscal year, and we have no reasonable expectation to get more than a couple of millions of dollars .”Days…
Running through a data analyst’s mind late at night
From an email to me this week. Quoted with permission. I’ve been doing this ‘data analyst’ thing for almost a…