Staring at the Lights: Your Data Warehouse Isn’t a Commodity
There are far too many data warehouse development teams solely focused on loading data. They’ve completely lost sight of their…
Visualizing droughts with R
Physicist and weather scientist Joe Wheatley used R to design and create a useful visual representation of how drought affects…
Tim Berners-Lee With an Update on Open Data
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, credited with inventing the World Wide Web, comes back to TED a year after his call for…
How Lyza stole the show at TDWI Las Vegas
Stealth buzz: how Lyza stole the show Lyzasoft wasn’t among the 38 exhibitors in TDWI’s Las Vegas exhibit hall. They…
Factoids, Stories and Insights
Recently, The Economist had a special report titled “Data, data everywhere“. The report examines the rapid increase in data volumes…
The Surgeon, the Survey and Survival
Statistical analysis is a venerable approach in medical research. It is one way to find causes of conditions that are…
Predictive Analytics: 8 Things to Keep in Mind (Part 4)
Theme 4: Statistical techniques and tools are not likely to provide competitive advantage I read this interesting post from Sijin…
The influence of open source on general BI
Until recently, open source solutions were most popular within various developer communities but remained on the fringe of general business…
NoSQL overview for all us “SQL” folks
Brian Aker of MySQL fame gave a 10 minute lighting talk about about the NoSQL movement at the Nov 2009…
Not All Queries Are Created Equal
A topic with which I developed an obsession in my last few years at Endeca is understanding how to predict…