What 3 Measures Are Your Business Game Changers?
I don’t know what it is exactly, but Opening Day for Major League Baseball is special. I don’t know what…
What Big Data Doesn’t Appear to Tell Us, But Actually Does
While researching Too Big to Ignore, I discovered that Big Data is already having a major impact on a wide…
Big Data and Rise of Predictive Analytics
Back in mid 1990s, when I was a Ph.D. student, one of the professors asked me what my career goal…
Predicting Lying and Predicting Dying
Who benefits by predicting your behavior? Organizations do—companies, governments, hospitals, and political campaigns. They employ predictive analytics, technology that learns…
Technology and the Effective Marketer
In this post, I'll focus on customer intelligence driven marketing and the proper use of data. In the "information economy,"…
The Fundamental Techie
IT Personality Traits That May Surprise YouIt’s a buyer’s market when it comes to top IT talent. As enterprise technology…
Moving Beyond Smart Part Numbers
During a process review session this week, I got involved in a terrific conversation about Smart Part Numbers. You know…
Are Data Scientists Overpaid?
(This post is a response to "Are Data Scientists Overpaid?" - ed. note)The answer? Fake data scientists are overpaid, real ones…
Indoor Locationing: The Hottest Thing in Tech
Apple’s acquisition of WiFiSlam is getting a lot of attention this week. Apple’s acquisition of WiFiSlam is getting a lot…
Unstructured Data: A Contrarian’s View
“If you analyzed the flow of digital data in 1980,” Stephen Baker wrote in his 2011 book Final Jeopardy: Man vs.…
