Analytics Valley: Big Data, Data Scientists and SAS Programmers
Tom Davenport reported an observation that Silicon Valley is becoming more analytical since companies in the Valley such as Google,…
How to Program MapReduce Jobs in Hadoop with R
MapReduce is a powerful programming framework for efficiently processing very large amounts of data stored in the Hadoop distributed filesystem.
Reference Domains Part III: Collecting Classifications
This is part three in the series about reference domains (a.k.a. classifications). In the first part we looked at the…
Executives Don’t Like Analytics: Why Business Isn’t Data-Driven
The business bestseller lists have showcased several high-profile books featuring case studies of companies enjoying competitive advantage from their cutting-edge…
Math Might Be Scary But It Isn’t New
In the good ol’ days, after the invention of numbers, we did everything by hand – by paper, pen, and…
Building a Text Analytics Command Center for Social & Private Data Analysis
I met with Mehrshad, our CIO, Social Intelligence Architect & VP of Product Management, to talk about a new concept…
Sentiment, Summits and Strategies: A Conversation with Seth Grimes
Last week, I had the great opportunity to chat with Seth Grimes about some of the work he is doing,…
Business People Are Dumb On Average(s)
Here’s one real-life example of the limits in quantitative thinking observed in an average company, shared with me by Michael…
The Analytics of Terrorism
I’m a big believer in analyzing data in order to make sensible decisions. On the tenth anniversary of 9/11,…
How Predictive Analytics Can Save Zebras
Predictive analytics can be used to drive brand loyalty, create cross-sell as well as upsell opportunities, predict and manage operations…
