INSA Report: Cloud Computing: Risks, Benefits, and Mission Enhancement for the Intelligence Community
On 13 march 2012, the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) released a report culminating a years worth of interviews…
Why Large Enterprises and EDW Owners Suddenly Care About Big Data
While most of big data is geared towards social media and stream analytics, traditional EDW can also best leverage the…
Are Public Clouds Complex Environments?
A recent analyst report suggests public clouds are prone to failure because they are inherently complex. However, just because there…
Big Data Analytics: Reframing Political Campaigns
A lot of people talk about Big Data, but not may do anything meaningful with it. Planned Parenthood is one…
Big Data Blasphemy: Why Sample?
Since data mining began to take hold in the late nineties, “sampling” has become a dirty word in some circles.…
Proctor & Gamble – A Case Study in Business Analytics
Best-in-Class Analytics Innovation Case Study…Interesting article about P&G and Business Analytics from InformationWeek, Feb 6, 2012. Illustrates the way Business…
10 Social Media Influencer Secrets and Strategies
Social Media Sites and Secrets - Top 10 Influencers reveal cool sites, secrets and evolving strategies… (10 Top Social Media…
Storytelling with Data to Rally Support for Your Position
The very concept of what a book is has changed. (The same is true with music videos — check out…
Selling BI… Are we doing it wrong?
Ideas Worth Spreading I had an epiphany of sorts lately after viewing the following video from TED. Simon Sinek gave…
My ‘Data’ Is Hot!
I run regularly and a lot of my runner friends are hugely turned on by personal metrics with GPS enabled…
