Style your R charts like the Economist, Tableau … or XKCD
As we noted last month, the new Themes feature in ggplot2 helps you customize the design of R charts to…
What Obama Didn’t Say About Big Data…
By now, I trust that many of you have read all there is to read about last night’s debate between…
TechAmerica Foundation Publishes Guide on Big Data for Governments
The TechAmerica Foundation is a non-profit (501c3), non-partisan resource and voice for the US technology industry. They have a tremendous…
Building Online Influence With Content Curation
Social media influence is measured by the quality of your content. But what if you can’t always come up with…
Predictive Analytic Strategies to Out-Predict the Competition
Predictive analytics is a method to study the past and, using a combination of sophisticated math and creative visual communication,…
Why Big Data and Business Intelligence Are Like One Direction
It’s true. But don’t despair. The sensational rise of Big Data within the reporting and analytics realm resembles an uncanny…
Big (Data) Wheel Keep on Turning
The alacrity with which analysts, vendors, customers and even the popular press have jumped on the big data bandwagon over…
Three Primary Analytics Lessons Learned from 9/11
Regarding the Al Qaeda terrorist attacks on 9/11, it’s distressing to learn there were plenty of chances to stop them. …
Revenge of the Nerds
A recent article in The Wall Street Journal, “Revenge of the Nerds, the Sequel: Silicon Vall A recent article in…
When Performance Metrics Attack: Complete, Agile BI Requires Going Beyond Just the Numbers
I'm currently reading Howard Schultz's Onward: How Starbucks Fought for its Life Without Losing its Soul (2010). Schultz compellingly conveys…
