Unless you’re Donald Trump—a fellow who’s always right, even when he’s wrong—there’s not much benefit to dogmatism. That’s because…
As humans, we have no problems staying busy. In fact, most of us are wired to “do something first” and…
According to the Financial Times, companies are on record pace to return over one trillion dollars to shareholders this year…
The language of probability to statisticians and most scientists is clear—they understand terms such as “correlation”, “statistically significant”, “confidence” and…
It is often thought that Apache® Hadoop based data lakes are a potential panacea to thorny data management issues long…
Built in the 1950s, California’s aqueduct is an engineering marvel that transports water from Northern California mountain ranges into thirsty…
After all the hype about big data and its mental cousin Hadoop, some CIOs are getting skittish about investing additional…
Trying to internally “sell” the merits of a big data program to your executive team? Of course, you will need…
Both Ben Bernanke and Edward John Smith got it wrong. They made terrible forecasts that either wrecked the economy, or…
Wall Street analysts keep waiting for companies to spend money upgrading their infrastructures, but they shouldn’t hold their collective breath. …
The above diagram was compiled by Florence Nightingale, who was – according to The Font – “a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of…
At a time in our history when there is more data than ever before, the overwhelming majority of companies ...
Money Out the Window It’s scary to think about the dollars involved, but with over 70% of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing projects failing it is surprising…
I always make the point that data is everywhere – and that a lot of it is free.
The internet and ecommerce world offers endless possibilities to use customer analytics and big data ..
