#9: Here’s a thought…
An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:It doesn’t have to…
TDWI World Conference Chicago 2009
Founded in 1995, TDWI (The Data Warehousing Institute™) is the premier educational institute for business intelligence and data warehousing that…
Data Mining Blogs: Two More for the Week-end
Here are two blogs dealing, among other topics, about data mining: We Can Fix That with Data: A blog from…
What a real flu pandemic looks like
Junk Charts has a neat example of what we would today call a Trellis or Lattice chart. Found in an…
The importance of feasibility studies in business intelligence
Introduction In a previous article, A more appropriate metaphor for business intelligence projects, I explained one complication of business intelligence…
Conducting A/B Tests: Subject Lines
Ask any email marketer and they’ll likely agree that testing subject lines is a good practice… but ask them if…
Breaking Free of the One-Page Dashboard Rule
Conventional wisdom says that an executive dashboard must fit on a single page or screen. The argument hinges on a…
IBM Acquires Exeros Assets – What does this mean for CA Data Profiler?
IBM has announced that it has acquired Exeros, the private company that produces Exeros Discovery X-Profiler, the product upon which…
B2B CRM: The Right Contact Mix for Your Customer Relationship
You’ve spent years gathering contacts into your databases. You’ve implemented a data quality practice that is now starting to give…
Wolfman vs. Googzilla
What’s not to love about a good fight? Check out David Talbot’s “Wolfram Alpha and Google Face Off” in Technology…