Banks, Risk Disclosure and Text Analytics
A UK-based MSc student of Kingston Business School - Christos Gkemitzis- had an idea for his MSc project which immediately…
The Data-Decision Symphony
As I have explained in previous blog posts, I am almost as obsessive-compulsive about literature and philosophy as I am…
Learning about data warehousing for mid-sized companies
My focus on the mid-market has caused me to speak with and work with companies looking at business intelligence from…
Video: Oh, the Data You’ll Show!
In May, I wrote a Dr. Seuss style blog post called Oh, the Data You’ll Show! inspired by the great…
“Some is not a number and soon is not a time”
In a true story that I recently read in the book Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard…
Gathering BI/DW requirements
There was a great article this week over on the Requirements Network – Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence Requirements Elicitation.…
Failing to Address Data Quality and Consistency – A Series of Unfortunate Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence Events
If data warehouses could talk, they might say “Don’t shoot me, I am just the messenger!”People sometimes think the data…
The Real Data Value is Business Insight
Understanding your data usage is essential to improving its quality, and therefore, you must perform data analysis on a regular…
Data Quality doesn’t matter (much)!
While touring in New Zealand to talk about my new book, I had the opportunity to do an interview on…
It’s time to industrialize analytics
There's a lot of talk about advanced analytics these days - the use of data mining and predictive analytics is…
