Big Data and Data Science: Is This Hype?
Big Data is one of those heavily abused technology terms today. It’s become a catch-all phrase used to fit any…
Infinite Analytics
Infinite Analytics is a cloud-based big data startup that uses the social graph of consumers to provide personalized recommendation. They…
Top BI Dashboard Design and Delivery Worst Practices
It’s child’s play, don’t you know? Business Intelligence (BI) dashboards are the proverbial cherry-on-top of your business analytics project –…
The Art of “Telling the Story” in Analytics
As with most things in life, the ability to communicate is the one of the keys to success. As a…
VisionWaves: The Case for a Global Business Cockpit
Modern organizations know that they need more than visualization. Modern visualization should enable users to collect accurate, coherent, related and…
Predictive Analytics in Software: Automation That Scales
For a software company it is also important that this automation scales appropriately. For a software company it is also…
What Does Taming Big Data Really Cost?
I’ve written in the past about the hype that surrounds big data. Perhaps one of the most ridiculous urban legends…
Build vs. Buy? Things to Consider Before Building an In-House Analytics System
Many analytics projects involving log files focus on operational event data. IT use cases around such projects typically focus on…
SAP Acquisition of KXEN Proxy War in the Cloud, Predictive Analytics Space
This week at the SAP Business Objects User Group Conference (SBOUC), Steven Lucas (President of Platform Solutions at SAP) announced…
Alpha Testing RevoScaleR Running in Hadoop
At Revolution Analytics our mission is to establish R as the driver for Enterprise level computational frameworks. In part, this…