Parents and kids: Missives and feeds
When I went away to college, I tried to write my parents a letter every week. This letter was a…
Data Quality Industry: Problem Solvers or Enablers?
This morning I had the following Twitter conversation with Andy Bitterer of Gartner Research and ANALYSTerical, sparked by my previous…
The three legged stool – business, analytics, IT
I was inspired to write something this week on the need to get people to collaborate by a post Jim…
Data Quality Magic
In previous posts I explained that, at least in regards to data quality, there are no magic beans, tooth fairies,…
Auto-correlation for time series analysis
Recently, I was reading the EPFL magazine and was surprised to see an article where they interviewed my master thesis…
Truly Distributed Analytics
The growth and success of Hadoop is very interesting. It is emerging as a highly significant technology for the data…
Data Quality is not an Act, it is a Habit
The Second Law of Data Quality states that it is not a one-time project, but a sustained program. Or to…
Some NoSQL Myths
I have been busy travelling recently but thought I would jot down a couple of NoSQL myths that are fresh…
