Automate Data Remediation to Find Dirty Data Before Your Customers Do
I teach a graduate course on data warehousing at Northeastern University in Boston.
Leveraging Customer Data to Drive Business Decisions
Interesting panel with folks from the Venetian, Marriott and Nextag discussing customer intelligence. First they were asked about their use…
4 Ways to Prevent Dirty Data From Spoiling Analytics
Change is good — except when change means you are constantly revising and checking databases, unsure of whether records are…
Exterior Design, Part II: Frequency
To continue the theme of designing for an ever changing set of requirements, I wanted to talk about the second…
As Data.gov Goes Dark, 50 Startups Prepare to Take its Place
the fiscal year, and we have no reasonable expectation to get more than a couple of millions of dollars .”
First Look – Eagle Eye Analytics
Eagle Eye Analytics is an analytics company offering advanced predictive modeling to the Property and Casualty insurance market. The company…
Consolidation in the Social Business Market Continues: Salesforce.com Acquires Radian6
Earlier today Salesforce.com announced its agreement to acquire socialytics software vendor Radian6 for a total of $326M in cash and…
A New Economy of Data
There is a revolution in data. Yet the revolution is not as much a new technology as it is a…
Dirty Data: Embarrassing, Expensive, Avoidable
I recently experienced a data-quality problem first-hand while on the phone with the company that books my family a condo…
Analyzing the Results of Analysis
Sometimes, the output of analytical tools can be voluminous and complicated. Making sense of it sometimes requires, well, analysis. Following…
