Why Predicting the Future is So Darn Difficult
Predicting the future is difficult—just ask George Soros. While Soros is often celebrated for the $1 billion profit he made…
Deloitte’s Top Technology Trends for 2011: Data Visualization and Real Analytics
Last week, Deloitte released its annual technology trends report in which it discusses the top IT trends that will impact…
Is the Instant-On Enterprise Right for You?
How is your enterprise dealing with Big Data? We’ve written much about the growing benefits and challenges Big Data is…
Text Mining & Analytics – Correlating Social Intelligence with Traditional Data
We talk a lot about analyzing social media conversations to surface consumers insights, considerations and preferences. But what we don’t…
HTML5 and The Semantic Web
Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia Since HTML5’s uptake in mainstream browsers, there’s been a lot of talk about the…
The power of analytics for public sector: Building analytics…
The power of analytics for public sector: Building analytics competency to accelerate outcomes Complex societal, economic, political and environmental pressures…
Discussing a Proposal for a Decision Modeling Notation
Warning –this is a post about a standards process so there are a fair number of abbreviations – I tried…
Demographics Meet Analytics: An Interview with comScore CMO Linda Abraham
Linda AbrahamGimme a little background on ComscoreWe began in 1999 and our goal at that point was to measure the…
Data Mining and Predictive Analytics Contest Has a $3 Million Prize
In a post earlier this year entitled, “Data Mining Improved Company’s Revenue By 187%,” we described how the knowledge that…
Analysis: R Growth Continues in Popularity of Data Analysis Software
Bob Muenchen, author of R for SAS and SPSS Users and co-author of R for Stata Users, has updated his…


