Analytics, Schmanalytics! How to Evaluate an Analyst
When you need your taxes prepared, you hire a CPA. When you’ve got a bridge to build, you hire a…
Out from behind the 8 ball with decisions
Jim Sinur had an interesting post this week – Don’t Get Stuck with Bad Policy/Rule Management. In it he said…
How Data Analytics and BI Professionals Used Twitter in November
Each month we bring you highlights of what happened in the data analytics and business intelligence Twittersphere, along with some…
What Enterprise Software Buyers Can Learn from Lumber Liquidators
A recent article by Eric Kimberling from the Panorama Consulting Group documented Lumber Liquidator’s failure of its ERP implementation. In…
Myth or Fact : The Diminishing Marginal Returns of Variable Creation in Data Mining Solutions.
Myth or Fact : The Diminishing Marginal Returns of Variable Creation in Data Mining Solutions. Data Mining practitioners will tell you…
Match Mitigation: When Algorithms Aren’t Enough
I’d like to get a little technical on this post. I try to keep my posts business-friendly, but sometimes there's…
Top BI Events in 2010, Top BI Trends in 2011
Ajay Ohri of DecisionStats.com has posted my email interview on Business Intelligence trends – you can read a copy below.…
Can Business Analytics Outperform Humans at Multitasking?
Science is proving that people underestimate how well they can multitask – doing or thinking about multiple things at the…
ETL Checkpoints
ETL tools can be extremely involved, especially with complex data sets. At one time or another, many data management professionals…
Defending Your Analytics: Handling Hecklers
The Nature of the Beast The trumpet sounds and the matador, dressed in gold, parades into the ring as a…
