The Objectives of Forecasting: Narrow and Broad
Free The BFDThe BFD has been on a short hiatus, fending off potential litigation with the organizing committee of a…
A Social Media Listening Post – Closing the Feedback Loop
With businesses becoming increasingly sensitive to customer opinion of their brand, monitoring consumer feedback is becoming ever more important.
IBM Advances Predictive Analytics for Decision Management
At its Business Analytics Analyst Summit (Twitter: #IBMBAS12) this week, IBM unveiled its new release of analytics software for decision management.…
4 Questions to Ask Before You Define Your Cloud BI Strategy
These days, when it comes to enterprise software, it seems that it is all about the cloud. Some software applications…
Adding Business to Analytics
As per Wikipedia “A simple definition of analytics is the science of analysis… Business managers may choose to make decisions…
Birthday Probabilities: Heat Map vs. R
Last week, Joe Rickert used R and four years of US Census data to create an image plot of the…
The Perils of Forecasting Benchmarks
Benchmarks of forecasting performance are available from several sources, including professional organizations and journals, academic research, and private consulting/benchmarking organizations.…
Tips for Executives – How to Get the Data You Need
One of the most common complaints that we hear from leaders and executives is that they have “too much data”…
Too much information for forecasting?
First: A Report from the 67th Pine Tree Festival and Southeast Timber ExpoBack in March The BFD investigated the topic…
