Understanding the Basics of Google Analytics
If I could recommend one skill to business owners with a website it would be a solid understanding of their…
Monitoring your brand: Sentiment analysis
Earlier this year at SAP's Business Suite 7 launch I saw a demo of some text analytics capability developed by…
Keeping Your Eye on the Prize: Business Value
Rightfully so, sometimes data warehouse directors and database administrators get caught up in sourcing, modeling, integrating and managing data in…
Who Cares About BI and Performance Management Market Share?
IDC recently released several reports on business analytics market shares, including business intelligence and performance management: Worldwide Business Analytics Software…
How FlightCaster Squeezes Predictions from Flight Data
During the last several years, an increasing number of systems within government and industry have been collecting massive amounts of…
Payola? There’s An App For That!
Remember a few months ago when there was a scandal about a Belkin employee paying people $0.65 per review to…
Analysis of a Bad Indicator
I watched a video lecture, as I often do, on data analysis. here's the video: the Hilbert Spectrum. Here are…
It Doesn’t Work Like That: BI Development Myths
When I was a little kid I would travel by air to visit my grandparents. In those days, PSA was…
What’s this button do?
Having left the wine business and returned to Europe, I ended up first as a supply chain manager for a…


