Here’s How Focusing on Decisions Aligns Analytics and Business
In a recent article over on All Analytics – Analytics-Business Alignment Needs Work – Beth Schultz discussed a set of…
Applying Big Data to 2011 Holiday Shopping Information
By most measures, 2011 holiday sales saw solid gains.
Data Mining Book Review: Decision Management Systems
I recently read the last book from James Taylor, Decision Management Systems: A Practical Guide to Using Business Rules and…
Bridging the IT and Business Terminology Chasm
With CIO’s becoming more business oriented and CFO’s becoming more IT savvy, where does this leave the CEO and how…
SAS BI: Looking at Google Analytics for Popular Blog Topics
This past week I have been studying the Google Analytics data to determine the best topics to discuss in the…
Extract Meta Concepts Through Co-occurrences Analysis and Graph Theory.
During the Christmas period I finally had the chance to read some papers about probabilistic latent semantic and its applications in…
BI’s Dirty Secrets
The overwhelming amount of articles, seminars, white papers and product announcements on big data, predictive analytics, cloud and mobile business…
Connecting the Dots: Misunderstood Dimensional Models
One of the debates one hears when designing a data warehouse is that it should be normalized. Specifically, they say…
9 Funky New Tech Job Titles for the 21st-Century Organization
ComputerWorld’s Mary Pratt just published what may be some key emerging tech job roles for the 21st-century organization. Anyone have…
Carole-Ann’s Predictions for 2015!
Yes, you have read the title correctly. I thought about making predictions for 2012 but my head tends to be…

