Early Indications February 2010: Ticket Punching
As one surveys the landscape of industries whose business models have been transformed by the Internet, airline ticketing and travel…
Because it’s Friday: Visualizing an email chain
We've all been there: someone sends an email to a mailing list with a Reply-To directing responses back to the…
Privacy Policy Perspectives
Whenever a site asks me to read their privacy policy before entering my info, my immediate reaction is to just…
Bound for Berlin, to the Teradata Universe
We are several weeks into the new year already and optimism is slightly returning to Europe, the Middle East and…
IRS Internal Migration Data and Housing Bubble
Earlier this week, I suggested a potential business application of IRS’s internal migration data for a moving and relocation company.…
Salesforce Chatter: Facebook for the enterprise?
The business world is crawling with software vendors and consultancies selling collaboration tools, from Microsoft's Sharepoint to IBM's Lotus Notes.…
BI 2010 – Optimizing revenue collection
Eugene from SARS, the South African Revenue Service, presented next on how SARS is using BI in revenue collection. He…
Building Competitive Advantage through New Data
One subject that has not received a lot of coverage in the analytics blogging circle is the current administration’s data.gov…
A social network… for the one dollar bill in your pocket.
Have you seen this? www.wheresgeorge.com is an effort to track how cold hard cash is flowing across the country. You…
Tableau Public launches visual analysis for the masses
I’m sorry to tell you serious types out there, but visual analysis is often a game — in fact, one…