At Zynga, Analytics is About Impact
Anyone can play Zynga’s FarmVille and other games, but very few get to analyze the data that runs off. Ken…
Guest Blog: Data 2.0 Conference Report
Note: This post was written by Scott Nicholson, a Senior Data Scientist at LinkedIn. Scott is data and modeling…
Living in the Cloud
I had not really planned to move to the cloud, but I find myself there.While I am still tethered to…
4 Ways to Prevent Dirty Data From Spoiling Analytics
Change is good — except when change means you are constantly revising and checking databases, unsure of whether records are…
Tom Davenport’s Culture of Analytics
On March 15 in San Francisco, Tom Davenport addressed a plenary session at Data Driven Business Week, calling his presentation The…
Why is IT Planning Stupid to Do?
Any possible roadmap in locating functions of operational local systems is doomed to failure. That is, anyone in the software…
A New Economy of Data
There is a revolution in data. Yet the revolution is not as much a new technology as it is a…
Analyzing the Results of Analysis
Sometimes, the output of analytical tools can be voluminous and complicated. Making sense of it sometimes requires, well, analysis. Following…
How “Dirty Data” Derails Your Company’s Data Analytics and ROI
How much of what your company knows is useful? Which data is current?
