Data Design Matters
As important as it is, data modeling has always had a geeky, faintly impractical tinge to some. I’ve seen application…
Pretty Pictures of BI: Tableau
There is an emerging genre of BI tools built specifically for business users to perform visual data discovery. The user…
Data Analysis Brings Different Sales Promotion in Festivals
Christmas just passed, New Year is on the way again. One special offer for New Year comes after another. Nowadays,…
Saving Microseconds with Informatica’s Ultra Messaging
Increasingly, global financial markets compete on speed, so much so that high-speed trading capabilities have become a performance differentiator for…
2013 1H Conferences in Social Media, BI, Big Data, and Sentiment Applications
As a sometime conference organizer, I need to track events that will compete for the attention of my target audience.…
Will The Big Data Bubble Burst In 2013?
I am going to go out on a limb, put a prediction in writing, and hope that I’m not eating…
Big Data and Crowdsourcing in Humanitarian Crisis Mapping
Last Thursday, I attended a webinar that was called Monitoring Humanitarian Crises in the Digital Age: Crisis Mapping, Crowdsourcing, and Satellite…
The Case for Data Hoarding
Do we really need all of this data?It’s a question that I’ve heard more than a few times in my…
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…
