Why Publish Your Data?
Attended the ‘Opening Up Government Data’ day in DERI, in Galway, today. Some interesting presentations and demonstrations of tools such…
Master Data Management: Does an Effective Solution Exist?
by Brenda SomichDespite being a term that has only reached popularity in the last decade, Master Data Management (MDM) is…
Putting Data in the Middle
In which Jill puts data in the center of the flywheel. And she’s in good company.
Analytics: The widening divide. An IBM/MIT Sloan study
I listened in to IBM’s call about their recent analytics study conducted with MIT Sloan – The Widening Divide (available…
Black Swan Alert: Low Tech Links Devastate High Tech Supply Chains
Find your supply chain best practices checklist. Just-in-time processes? Check. Optimum sourcing strategies? Check. Lean logistics? Check. Best-in-class technologies? Check. Black swan…
Statistics Poetry by Geeks and Nerds
I couldn’t help myself. The creative juices started to flow and poetry spewed out of me like warm icing from…
Webinar on Portfolio Rebalancing with R and Sybase
R users in the financial industry may be interested in the following webinar hosted by Revolution Analytics' partner Sybase on…
The World’s 7 Most Powerful Data Scientists
Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Media and highly regarded technology trend watcher and good idea amplifier, wrote a short piece…
Does information technology create or destroy jobs? Or is this even the right question?
Is information technology destroying more jobs than it creates? That’s long been the conventional wisdom, of course. Proponents of IT,…
One Trillion Reasons: One Year Later
In October 2010 one of America’s great outlets of technology leadership thought published an important paper meant to inform government…
