“Big Data” Is Coming, “Big Data” Is Coming:
What Does It Mean To Analytic Professionals?For my first blog posting, I decided to focus on one of the hottest…
Bad 3D Pie Chart Alert! By Scientific American no less!
Well, this is a stunning piece of poor quality work by a respected magazine! I’m not sure if I can…
First Look – Oracle Data Mining Update
I got an update from Oracle on Oracle Data Mining (ODM) recently. ODM is an in-database data mining and predictive…
What to Do When You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know…
So once again there was a great coincidence from my travels. Three times in the past week I was told…
Putting SharePoint Genie Back into the Bottle
I'm the mother of a 10-year-old, so I know what it's like to repeat something over and over (and over)…
Data Liberation: The Case For and Against
I’ve been doing a great deal of research on Facebook, one of the main topics of my fourth book. Mark Zuckerberg’s…
Analyzing Community Data – Business Insights at Your Fingertips
Insights into consumer behavior and preferences can be surfaced not only from social media conversations but may also be found…
Realtime Data Pipelines
In life there are really two major types of data analytics. Firstly, we don’t know what we want to know…
Because It’s the Weekend: Super Mario AI
Ever seen a Mario speedrun? Players compete playing the Mario Bros video games, aiming not for the highest score but…
Who Hates Google+ the Most: 16 Views from 16 Networks
Whether you were lucky or unlucky to be the first or last person on Google+, most people who wanted an…
