Virtualization, Federation, EII and other non-synonyms
As an old proponent of the Enterprise Data Warehouse or EDW (well, let me stick my neck out and claim…
Defending Your Analytics: Handling Hecklers
The Nature of the Beast The trumpet sounds and the matador, dressed in gold, parades into the ring as a…
Giving Thanks as an Information Scientist
As a first-generation American who is married to a card-carrying Native American, I celebrate Thanksgiving the traditional way: a day…
Overcoming Tradition with Analytics – Baseball’s Mindshift
Tradition is always a challenge to overcome. It reminds me of the definition of stupidity as “repeating the same mistakes…
General Purpose Sensemaking Systems and Information Colocation
General purpose sensemaking systems will colocate diverse data in the same data space. Such an approach enables massively scalable, real-time,…
Talk Analytics with Executives: 4 Things You Must Understand
Data analysis isn’t something you do for your own entertainment. Businesses pay for analytics to support decision-making, to provide them…
Big Data. New Physics.
I spoke at Defrag 2010 earlier today and introduced what I am describing as the new physics of big data.…
The Data Outhouse
This is a screen capture of the results of last week’s unscientific data quality poll where it was noted that…
Art and Science of Data Visualization (Part 2)
Just a little more theory and background on Data Visualization, to eat up the rest of your weekend. Unlike the…
