Good Perspective on Analytics
Interesting post on healthcare fraud – a couple of good points – traditional view of predictive analytics assumes you know what you are predicting – Fraud is adaptive – it changes. As a result being...
View ArticleAnother reason why Data Management and Analysts cannot lead separate lives
Another reason why Data Management and Analysts cannot lead separate lives I found this article interesting in that it points out why the bridge between the data side of the house and the analytical...
View ArticleMicrosoft Powerpivot
Microsoft Powerpivot I have always thought that Tableau was initially just a cool way to create Excel pivot tables and populate the results in a graphic – something you can do in Excel, but was a lot...
View ArticleGartner 2012 MDM Survey
Given what just put out about TIBCO, thought that I should put this out as they show up here under MDM as well. Magic Quadrant for Master Data Management of Customer Data Solutions 18 October 2012...
View ArticleMagic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools
Gartner Data Integration Survey October 2012 – All the normal suspects. However, was surprised (and pleased) to see Talend in the mix. Interesting to note that SAS is in the lead with the number of...
View ArticleTIBCO – Buys another company
TIBCO buys another company in the analytics space. I have always thought that with Spotfire, the Enterprise Service Bus business, and the acquisition of Insightful some years ago, TIBCO had the makings...
View ArticleThe story is what counts!! Data Scientists Draw Pictures and Tell Short...
http://www.datasciencecentral.com/m/blogpost?id=6448529%3ABlogPost%3A60854 Tagged: data scientist
View ArticleThis should come as no suprise… Using Excel for complex analysis on an...
This report on how using Excel has caused some major miscalculations should come as no surprise… Excel exists because it is pervasive, easy to use and can be applied to a range of decision making...
View ArticleData Visualisation » Martin’s Insights
This is a good article on data visualization. The author indicates in his considerations section that “real data can be very difficult to work with at times and so it must never be mistaken that data...
View ArticleAgile development – a good idea so often badly implemented!
The other day I got something from Carahsoft about a seminar on agile development. The Federal government has been pushing this for some time, so it is curious as to why Carahsoft decided to have a...
View ArticleAnalyst Desktop Binder – Interesting view of Social Media Exploitation
Interesting reading – especially if you have done work in the fusion centers Much noise was made of the words that are searched within media – This is a pretty long list and what it says to me is that...
View ArticleMary Meeker’s Latest Masterful Presentation On The State Of The Web
Thanks to BeSpacific for forwarding this article – lots of good interesting stats on the e-world… Each year, Kleiner Perkins partner and former analyst Mary Meeker releases an in-depth look at the...
View ArticleThe Making of an Intelligence-Driven Organization
Interesting presentation – but really liked the Prezi – if you have not seen one of these have a look The discussions/handout covered many points including: As a discipline, intelligence seeks to...
View ArticleAnalyst Desktop Binder - Interesting view of Social Media Exploitation
Reblogged from analyticaltern: Interesting reading - especially if you have done work in the fusion centers Much noise was made of the words that are searched within media - This is a pretty long list...
View ArticleDebate over NSA collecting information … can the media begin to report...
So this business of the NSA collecting data should come as no surprise to anyone. The media is having a field day! The issue is whether or not the intel community is doing this legally. Has the FISA...
View ArticleAggregate Persistence & Polyglot Persistence!
Gotta love the consultant speak!! This short article provides an interesting perspective on how NoSQL differs from a data storage perspective, and why that is important. The article also points out...
View Article[Book] Delivering Business Analytics: Practical Guidelines for Best Practice...
http://www.analyticbridge.com/m/group/discussion?id=2004291%3ATopic%3A246264 Looking for feedback on this book. Tagged: book
View ArticleEfficiencies with Columnar Databases
A little while ago, I posted an entry from Andrew’s Crabtree Analytics blog where he had posted data on a test he did showing significant improvements on performance related to the use of columnar...
View ArticleSeven Questions to Ask Your Data Geeks
This is a good article on some of the basics that are so often not asked. I get disagreement, but for the most part big mistakes in analytics projects stem from the answers to these questions not being...
View ArticleSlowly Sowly the various pieces to build out the Hadoop vision are coming...
This article talks about Hunk (Splunk + Hadoop). It is a good example of how the various pieces are coming together to enable the Hadoop vision to become reality. Where will the mainstream commercial...
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