Conditional probability: an easier way
Conditional probabilities are bane of many students of Statistics, but statements of conditional probability come up surprisingly often in real…
Listen to: Putting the Pieces together – Finding Value in Unstructured Data
We at SmartData Collective hosted a webinar last week examining strategies for extracting real business value from the mounds of…
Blind Vendor Allegiance Trumps Utility
At the recent Gartner MDM Summit in Las Vegas I was approached at least a half a dozen times by…
Dashboards: A Kite with a Broken String?
How do executives expect to realize their strategic objectives if all they look at is financial results like product profit…
20 Top Twitter Monitoring and Analytics Tools
Image via Wikipedia Social media is much more than a way to stay connected and to have fun: it’s…
Gen “C”
For some time now I've been thinking about the whole generational categorization scheme that always gets a lot of coverage.…
Decision engines in financial services
The use of technology to automate and manage decisions, especially high volume decisions essential to day-to-day operational execution, is expanding…
MongoDB 30,000 downloads a month?
Image by Cesar Rodas via Flickr While I have written about NoSQL generating a lot of buzz recently I have…
Google Apps Even More Powerful Now
We have been writing for years about the megatrend of Cloud Computing, and have also underscored that many of the…
Rating agency data: Getting gamed
It looks like the rating agencies, which contributed so much to the housing bubble (and bust), made it easy for…
