Google’s Year in Local Search
At the beginning of the year, Google's results page for looked like this: At the beginning of the year, Google's…
Real-Time Pricing Algorithms – For or Against Us?
In 2012, Cyber Monday sales climbed 30% over the previous year’s results. Indeed, Cyber Monday benefits both online retailers as…
Bigger Than Big Data? Mobile User Expectations
How big data is shaping mobile user expectationsBy Jeff Hasen How big data is shaping mobile user expectationsBy Jeff HasenHipcricket Chief…
Political Revolutions on Twitter, Visualized with R
Twitter has become a powerful medium for organizing and communicating with factions during popular uprisings: the crisis in Egypt, the…
The Data Geek’s Guide to Happiness in 2013
When it comes to happiness, why don't we do what we do best as data geeks, collect data on it,…
Data Integration Roadmap to Support Big Data and Analytics
Traditional extract, transform and load (ETL) has existed since the times when data warehousing evolved to help move data from…
OLAP Cask Principle Reveals the Future for OLAP Tools Manufacturer
This post is originally posted on http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/data-analytics/olap-cask-principle-reveals-the-future-for-olap-tools-manufacturer-54044. This post is originally posted on http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/data-analytics/olap-cask-principle-reveals-the-future-for-olap-tools-manufacturer-54044.Cask principle illustrates this idea: no matter…
The Humbling Effect of Big Data
Many of us walk around with the knowledge that we generally understand how the world works. When people ask us…
Is LinkedIn One Step Away from Becoming the World’s Largest Performance Management System?
I got an email today from some former colleagues (and current friends), adding me to a project listing on LinkedIn.…
The Big Deal in Big Data is a Big Opportunity
Big data was big news in 2012 and probably in 2013 too. The Harvard Business Review talks about it as The…
