The First Data Scientist on the Evolution of Data Science
Norman Nie was not surprised by the accurate predictions of the presidential election results from Nate Silver and others. “A…
SAS ODS Report Writing Interface: A Quick Demo
I personally nominated SAS ODS Report Writing Interface as one of the best technologies I found in SAS in 2012.…
Why Business Intelligence Software Is Failing Business
Business intelligence software is supposed to help businesses access and analyze data and communicate analytics and metrics. I have witnessed…
New Trends in BI, Analytics and Social Media
What’s Missing From Your BI?This week? Two things: What’s Missing From Your BI?This week? Two things:First, a real understanding of…
InfusionSoft Buys GroSocial – Another Sign of the Times
My January column for CRM magazine focused on why I thought 2013 would be the year marketing automation went mainstream…
Technologies and Analyses in CBS’ Person of Interest
Person of Interest is a broadcast television show on CBS where a “machine” predicts a person most likely to die…
Analyzing Logs and More – A Big Data Architecture
Big data and log files Splunk's great success in providing the tools for a sysadmin to delve into previously inaccessible…
Decision Automation: How To Augment Predictive Analytics with Human Intelligence
This article examines the perfect combination of automated decisioning with advanced analytics and the human interaction.Let’s start with a simple…
The Real Value of Big Data
HADOOP FOR BIG DATA HADOOP FOR BIG DATAAround 80% of data from “big data” is unstructured. With this massive quantity…
Big Data Trees with Hadoop HDFS
Last month's release of Revolution R Enterprise 6.1 added the capability to fit decision and regresson trees on large data…
