How Much Big Data is Too Much?
With storage costs plummeting and sophisticated software approaches to mining Big Data, it appears that it is increasingly cost effective…
The 8 Laws of Dashboard Design: This Is Not an 80’s Rave
There is a right balance to strike between creating beautiful dashboards and creating informative dashboards. Many of the rules of…
Test, Learn, Adapt: Using Analytics to Improve Public Policy
Ben Goldacre of Bad Science fame has co-written a UK Cabinet Office paper on how to improve government policy through…
Ya Can’t See the Forest Through the Trees
I was talking with a doctor on the train the other day who was complaining about the current state of…
No Silver Business Intelligence Bullets, But Still a Bright Upside
When Tom Petty sang, “Hey baby, there ain’t no easy way out” he wasn’t referring to business intelligence (BI) reporting…
How a Decision Management System Would Make It Easier to Watch the Olympics!
On the occasion of the Olympic Games opening ceremony I thought I would share one of my pet peeves about this and…
Twitter Words Association Analysis
Recently I came across Twitter Spectrum tool from Jeff Clerk. This tool is modified version of News Spectrum tool.Here you…
Denver Broncos and Olympians Go Digital
The “measured life” of tracking health vital signs, calorie intakes, feces analysis and more is moving past the domain of…
Technology Integration and Big Data: Extracting Value
Most people think of Big Data as being about volume, but there are other critical dimensions such as velocity and…
Run IT as a responsive business, beat the cloud vendors at their own game
The days of information technology departments as cost centers are fading fast. These days, IT is either playing a role…

