Nova’s documentary on IBM’s Jeopardy machine: Questions raised
I enjoyed watching the Nova special, Smartest Machine on Earth, about IBM's Jeopardy computer. It was interesting to me that…
National Security Strategy as Art
Wordle is a capability for generating “word clouds” from text. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more…
Social Media Analytics – Understanding Your Social Customer and Context
Sometimes when organizations begin to consider using social media to engage with their customers or as a measurement tool for…
A Poorly Managed Company’s Tour Guide
Publicly traded companies issue annual reports that increasingly look like magazines. Almost all organizations publish a brochure with glossy pictures…
Strata Review by Ted Leung
Ted Leung has written an thoughtful review of last week's Strata: Making Data Work conference, and with more detail than…
Two Videos About the Power of Business Rules
I am doing a series of videos with the folks at Bosch Software Innovations (the folks behind Visual Rules) and…
We’re Not Artists: The Craft of Influencing Decision Makers
It’s frustrating. You put weeks into careful research and analysis, rehearse a big presentation, and the manager spends the whole…
The End of Classic Business Objects
In his recent blog postings, SAP Business Objects trainer Dallas Marks has talked about "the end of the world as…
How Social BI and Data Analytics Professionals Used Twitter in January
Welcome to our monthly recap on data analytics and BI professionals on Twitter.
