RulesFest 2011 – Kenny Shi: Scalability in a Real-Time Decision Platform
My friend Kenny has decided to also talk about performance. Given the magnitude of the traffic on eBay and the…
Crossing the Language Chasm: Extracting Information from Foreign-Language Text
Just a few years ago, text analytics was unknown to most business people, even most data analysts. Today, more and…
Business Analytics Optimization Keynote #iod11
Fred Balboni gave the Business Analytics and Optimization keynote. You can get a “faster planet” without analytics, just by automating…
What is Social Media Research?
You know, this seems to be a simple question that ought to have a simple answer. Unfortunately, it doesn’t. I’ve…
Social Software, Feature or Product?
We have this debate running about social software and whether it's, for the most part anyway, a set of features…
Decide.com – New Search Ideas for Unstructured Data
In this video from BizIntelligence.TV, University of Washington professor and entrepreneur Oren Etzioni describes his work in data searching innovation…
Big Data – Big Change or Big Hype?
In the Information part of Information Technology, Big Data is the Big Hit of 2011. It's also a wonderful phrase…
Decision Management Systems drive the second economy
Cross-posted from International Institute for Analytics There was a great article recently in the McKinsey Quarterly – The Second Economy.…
Oracle Takes Endeca – a War of Acquisition?
I believe it was Forrester Research who coined the phrase "Unified Information Access (UIA)" back in a 2008 publication as…
BI Business Value – Timeliness or Consistency, Part 2
Having looked at timeliness in Part 1, let's turn our attention to consistency.
