Google Analytics Achilles Heel
For the casual user, Google Analytics seems like analytics manna and at free it's hard to complain too much.However, for…
Design for Information
All to often reports are designed to provide data, not information. There are charts and tables with little intrepretation, or…
Adventures in Data Profiling (Part 1)
In my popular post Getting Your Data Freq On, I explained that understanding your data is essential to using it…
VectorWise
I was fortunate enough to speak with Marcin Zukowski earlier about VectorWise. If you missed it, VectorWise came out of…
Zero Latency: The Next Arms Race
In the near future, your company may be competing with a computer. In fact, companies with the fastest computers, most…
Good Data Warehouse DBAs are Hard to Find
As a consultant I’m often asked about how roles and responsibilities should be delegated or identified within the IT organization…
Reality Mining – Too Much Personalization?
What does your mobile phone usage say about you? Probably a lot more than you think. Mobile phone operators are…
It’s data, Jim, but not as we know it – Part 1: What the echo of the Big Bang tells us about the nature of information
Possibly I am just turning into a grumpy old man in my middle-age, but there are two words that when…
#18: Here’s a thought…
An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:Less is moreWe live…
HadoopDB discussion with Daniel Abadi
I spoke to Daniel Abadi a few days ago about his HadoopDB announcement that came out recently. I am sure…