Twitter to Release a Real-time Analytics Solution
Twitter plans to launch a free analytics dashboard that will help its users – especially businesses – understand how others…
Wolfram/Alpha and the future of search
The New York Times article on the arm of my chair is about the plight of poor workers in South…
Social Media Insights from Predictive Analytics
Here is one more example on how Predictive Analytics may help professionals to make better decisions. For this post a…
Extend the Possibilities of BI
I initially bought a Nintendo Wii thinking it would be a fun gaming console to entertain the kids. Little did…
Where to start with business rules
I was working on my chapter for the forthcoming SAP BPM book (Applying Real-World BPM in an SAP Environment) and…
The Semantic Web, Part II: The Business Case and Customer Service Implications
In part one of this series, I broached the semantic web and semantic technologies. I described how they differ from…
How to Use Data Analytics to Get a Perfect Credit Score
Data analytics can help you with the most analyzed and fretted over piece of data, your credit score. This score…
Please take my privacy poll
I have a poll running on the SmartDataCollective site. It's about privacy. Please visit. It'll take about 10 seconds (though…
Data Mining Theory vs. Practice
In many fields, it is common to find a gap between theorists and practitioners. As stereotypes, theorists have a reputation…
Analytics and the myth of the aha moment
I often hear people talk about analytics, especially advanced analytics like data mining or predictive analytic modeling, as though the…