Scrooge Didn’t Believe in Sentiment Analysis Either
I mentioned Ebenezer Scrooge, Charles Dickens’ fictional financier from A Christmas Carol, in a previous post on the importance of…
Safeguarding Patient Data in EHRs
A recent blog by the HIPAA, HITECH & HIT legal blog of Fox Rothschild revealed a survey administered by the…
Big Data is Puzzling!
The three Vs — volume, velocity and variety — are the essential characteristics of big data. But isn’t it amazing…
Solving Smith’s Dashboard Disdain: Reimagine BI communication with Collaborative BI
Tradition can be a good thing. It can bring people together, maintain the bonds of friendship and culture, and ensure…
On Trees, Data Quality, and Big Data
I recently had some palm trees put into my backyard in my Nevada home. It was a downright cool experience…
Winner of the 2012 Government Big Data Solutions Award
The Government Big Data Solutions Award was established to highlight innovative solutions and facilitate the exchange of best practices, lessons…
Upcoming Webinar: Real-time, Big-data Analytics
A quick heads-up that I'll be presenting another brand-new webinar on Thursday next week (November 29). In Real-time Big Data Analytics:…
Tableau Thrives in Providing Visual Discovery for Business Analytics
Tableau Software is growing fast. Tableau has taken a “land and expand” strategy that drives what they call the democratization of…
Great Visualization of One Hour of Carbon Emissions in NYC….
Great visualization of one hour of carbon emissions in NYC. Background, here. Why this matters, here. Great visualization of one…
2012 Presidential Elections Popular Vote
The following chart is a good example of displaying diverging data using color. We set “50%” as the neutral point…
