Fewer BI Tools in Your Future
According to a July 2009 survey conducted by InformationWeek Analytics and Intelligent Enterprise, organizations are continuing to reduce the number…
Social Metrics: Measuring Success
As more and more companies start to roll out and participate in social business projects as well as start to…
Listen to: Putting the Pieces together – Finding Value in Unstructured Data
We at SmartData Collective hosted a webinar last week examining strategies for extracting real business value from the mounds of…
Dashboards: A Kite with a Broken String?
How do executives expect to realize their strategic objectives if all they look at is financial results like product profit…
Decision engines in financial services
The use of technology to automate and manage decisions, especially high volume decisions essential to day-to-day operational execution, is expanding…
MongoDB 30,000 downloads a month?
Image by Cesar Rodas via Flickr While I have written about NoSQL generating a lot of buzz recently I have…
R/Finance 2010 … and unicorns
At the Information Management blogs, Steve Miller has posted a great roundup of last weekend's R/Finance 2010 conference in Chicago.…
Patterns patterns everywhere
Introduction A lot of human scientific and technological progress over the span of recorded history has been related to discerning…
R 2.11.0 released
The latest version of R from the R Project, R 2.11.0, is now available in source code form. Binaries for…
Quest for knowledge
When I was growing up, my mother encouraged me to become a librarian. I think she plotted that career path…
