Splunk: Bringing Big Data Analysis to the Rest of Us
Today’s IT departments need to deal with incredible amounts of machine data. Splunk collects, indexes and harnesses all the fast…
Top Ten Root Causes of Data Quality Problems: Part Three
Part 3 of 5: Secret Code and Corporate Evolution In this continuing series, we're looking at root causes of data…
Top Ten Root Causes of Data Quality Problems: Part 2
Part 2 of 5: Renegades and Pirates Part 2 of 5: Renegades and Pirates In this continuing series, we're looking…
Seven Misconceptions about Data Quality
The narrow definition of data quality is that it's about bad data - data that is missing or incorrect. A…
Big Data: It’s About the Data, Not About the Big
Today in my local paper there was an article on the 17th annual Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining conference. The…
Top Ten Root Causes of Data Quality Problems: Part One
Part 1 of 5: The Basics Part 1 of 5: The Basics We all know data quality problems when we…
Gartner Adds Big Data to Its 2011 Hype Cycle
It’s that time of year again: Gartner is looking at the “hype cycle” for emerging technologies and trying to decide…
Does Your BI Project Consider ‘Other Types of Data’?
Author: Amanda BrandonSpotfire Blogging TeamWayne Kernochan (@wkernochan) wrote this week at Enterprise Apps Today that IT buyers need to “look…
From “The Farm” to FarmVille
In an experiment on crowdsourcing intelligence, Applied Research Associates, Inc hopes to see if it can build better intelligence collectors and…
Has Personalized Filtering Gone Too Far?
In a world of plenty, algorithms may be our saving grace as they map, sort, reduce, recommend, and decide how airplanes…

