Big Data – Quantity vs Quality: Don’t confuse lots of data with good data
In the paper today (San Diego Union Tribune, Sunday 1/15) there was a good article on the need for data…
Applying Big Data to 2011 Holiday Shopping Information
By most measures, 2011 holiday sales saw solid gains.
Brand Management in the Age of the Connected Consumer
It’s not surprising that Procter & Gamble pioneered the discipline of Brand Management, but what you may not know is…
Farewell To BlogPulse
Today, according to the announcement on the BlogPulse homepage, is the day that Neilsen will shutter the longstanding blog analysis…
Extract Meta Concepts Through Co-occurrences Analysis and Graph Theory.
During the Christmas period I finally had the chance to read some papers about probabilistic latent semantic and its applications in…
Can Real-Time Social Analytics Provide Early Indications of Business Results
As more consumers use social media to express their preferences, their location and what they’re purchasing and why, the more…
6 Social Media and Text Analytics Questions
The challenge for social media analytics is in going deeper not just broader. Business 2 Community did a short interview…
Connecting the Dots: Misunderstood Dimensional Models
One of the debates one hears when designing a data warehouse is that it should be normalized. Specifically, they say…
9 Funky New Tech Job Titles for the 21st-Century Organization
ComputerWorld’s Mary Pratt just published what may be some key emerging tech job roles for the 21st-century organization. Anyone have…
How the Consumerization of Data Leads to More Quality of Life Improvements
In the second post of our series about how people everywhere can use data and tools to make the world…


