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Movie Review: Lafangey Parinday (Rouge Birds)

Date: 2010-09-06 11:24:11
Unlike earlier movies/reviews- this one is an out and out Bollywood masala movie- include suspense- drama-action-romance-songs. Neil Nitin Mukesh give...

Resource Mistakes, Part III: Silencing Dissent

Date: 2010-09-06 10:05:16
In my previous two posts, I discussed some of the perils associated with staffing information management (IM) projects. Waiting until the last minute...

Web services should be both federated and extensible

Date: 2010-09-05 08:55:20
One of the most important developments of the web 2.0 era is the proliferation of full featured, bidirectional APIs. APIs provide a way to “federate...

Rapid Miner- R Extension

Date: 2010-09-04 19:50:52
Here is a new video which shows exactly how you can use Rapid Miner and R together. Advantages of using both together is using Rapid Miner’s GUI...

Evolution of Change: Signs for the Future of Business

Date: 2010-09-03 23:54:20
I like taking the time once in a while to tie different trends together, it just helps me focus on what's really happening now and helps me unders...

Website Geo-Targeting as a Forecasting and Budgeting Tool

Date: 2010-09-03 13:39:51
Capturing an individual's postal or zip code on a website form can provide valuable information for forecasting sales and planning budgets. A webs...

The TV revolution: Changing the players

Date: 2010-09-03 05:33:00
Picture the American industrial economy in about 1960 (before the global and information economies rejiggered things). In the middle was the car. A ho...

BI – ERP Integration

Date: 2010-09-03 02:02:00
MAIA Intelligence has seen customers asking for real time reporting rather than waiting for big bang data warehouse modeling where this issues of data...

Very Simple Segmentation Ideas for Retailers

Date: 2010-09-03 00:00:04
Segmentation Strategy is a pretty common theme among eMarketers; we’ve covered some simple strategies in other posts on the blog – buyers vs. non-...

Predictive Analytics: Benefits and Challenges of Using Graph Theoretic Methods

Date: 2010-09-02 13:00:00
Graph theoretic methods are already used successfully in Google’s page rank, social network analysis, influencer marketing and driving directions. In...

Using predictive analytics for fantasy football

Date: 2010-09-02 12:15:00
You'd think that a master of predictive analytics would steer clear of emotional entanglements with the lowly Detroit Lions. But hometown sympathi...

Enterprise Information: Managing and Mitigating Risk

Date: 2010-09-02 09:48:32
As new forms of content and communication are developed, organizations areincreasingly faced with ahighvolume and complexity of information. Adding to...

Blair, Bush, and the Problem of Political Judgment

Date: 2010-09-02 09:20:15

Business Intelligence Solutions Aid Financial Services Fraud Prevention

Date: 2010-09-02 07:55:27
In recent years, financial services have seen the regulations continue to pile on as this industry is riddled with fraud.  According to a recent blog...

Business Intelligence Solutions Aid Financial Services Fraud Prevention

Date: 2010-09-02 07:55:27

My Complicated Relationship with Technology

Date: 2010-09-02 06:14:23

Pirates of the Computer: The Curse of the Poor Data Quality

Date: 2010-09-02 04:00:00
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One CIO’s View of Cloud Computing and ERP Software

Date: 2010-09-01 10:15:24

A Self-Service and Social Approach To Analytics – BI Webinar

Date: 2010-09-01 07:55:11

A Self-Service and Social Approach To Analytics – BI Webinar

Date: 2010-09-01 07:55:11
For anyone who missed the Aug 25 webinar “BI in the Cloud” with Forrester Research senior analyst James Kobielus, a recorded copy is available her...

From Business Intelligence to Enterprise IT Architecture, Part 6

Date: 2010-09-01 07:00:00
This article, Part 6 of a continuing series, describes the process layer of the Business Integrated Insight architecture and replaces each of 3 common...

Analytics: Why Gut Feel is Just Not Enough

Date: 2010-09-01 06:00:00
The dynamic, unpredictable and complex behavior of consumers requires organizations to make smarter decisions in order to meet multiple business objec...

Segmentation is About Precision

Date: 2010-09-01 00:00:03
Precision is a key tactic to creating relevance & engagement. To achieve this precision, you have to focus on your segmentation strategy; here are fiv...

Agile AND Industrial Analytics

Date: 2010-08-31 14:36:05
I wrote a post called “It’s time to industrialize analytics” for Smart Data Collective a little while ago and it prompted Tom to reply with Ag...

The Power of Life Long Learning - Take the 90 Day Challenge

Date: 2010-08-31 09:34:00
About ten years ago, my wife and I attended the annual neighborhood Christmas party when I found myself cheerfully buried deep in conversation with my...

Why count on the brain for truth?

Date: 2010-08-31 07:37:00
Try this. Hold your thumb as far away as you can from your eye. That represents about one percent of your field of vision. When we see things, that...

Banks, Risk Disclosure and Text Analytics

Date: 2010-08-31 04:52:00
A UK-based MSc student of Kingston Business School - Christos Gkemitzis- had an idea for his MSc project which immediately caught my attention : Use T...

The Data-Decision Symphony

Date: 2010-08-31 04:00:00
As I have explained in previous blog posts, I am almost as obsessive-compulsive about literature and philosophy as I am about data and data quality, b...

Finding Important Data for a Modeling Exercise

Date: 2010-08-31 01:31:58
Crosstabs, boxplots and scatterplots can be effectively used to find 'important data' amidst the growing tidal wave of information from mobile...

Visualize Social Connections with Mind Mapping?

Date: 2010-08-30 18:17:23

The Long Term Value of Community Relations

Date: 2010-08-30 11:36:12
Most marketers have a careful eye on metrics, such as cost per lead, conversion rates, and the holy grail of “hard” return on investment calculati...

Intersection of Bi and Social Media Survey

Date: 2010-08-30 11:00:00
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Learning about data warehousing for mid-sized companies

Date: 2010-08-30 08:11:52
My focus on the mid-market has caused me to speak with and work with companies looking at business intelligence from a different perspective in relati...

Learning about data warehousing for mid-sized companies

Date: 2010-08-30 08:11:52
My focus on the mid-market has caused me to speak with and work with companies looking at business intelligence from a different perspective in relati...

Smarter Commuting Starts With Analytics, Visualization

Date: 2010-08-30 07:55:03

Smarter Commuting Starts With Analytics, Visualization

Date: 2010-08-30 07:55:03

Smarter Commuting Starts With Analytics, Visualization

Date: 2010-08-30 07:55:03
Anyone who has driven in New York City’s rush-hour traffic might want to consult with Charles Komanoff before doing it again.  If anyone has the sm...

Kindle and America’s Decline?

Date: 2010-08-30 06:42:14
I am always fascinated by technology and change. I often think about one of Kranzberg’s laws of technology, one of which is:

Kindle and America’s Decline?

Date: 2010-08-30 06:42:14
I am always fascinated by technology and change. I often think about one of Kranzberg’s laws of technology, one of which is:

Resource Mistakes, Part II: Brian, Stewie, and TCO

Date: 2010-08-30 06:41:11

Resource Mistakes, Part II: Brian, Stewie, and TCO

Date: 2010-08-30 06:41:11

Video: Oh, the Data You’ll Show!

Date: 2010-08-28 18:00:00
In May, I wrote a Dr. Seuss style blog post called Oh, the Data You’ll Show! inspired by the great book Oh, the Places You'll Go!

Video: Oh, the Data You’ll Show!

Date: 2010-08-28 18:00:00
In May, I wrote a Dr. Seuss style blog post called Oh, the Data You’ll Show! inspired by the great book Oh, the Places You'll Go!

Social Engineering — Hacking by Asking

Date: 2010-08-28 15:40:58
“Hi, this is Robert Downs from Dell support — I got redirected to this number by accident by the guy I called, is this Guy?” “Hi Robert — I...

Social Engineering — Hacking by Asking

Date: 2010-08-28 15:40:58
“Hi, this is Robert Downs from Dell support — I got redirected to this number by accident by the guy I called, is this Guy?” “Hi Robert — I...

The Top Three hottest new majors according to Microsoft: data mining, business intelligence, web analytics

Date: 2010-08-27 14:48:12
Data Mining/Machine Learning/AI/Natural Language Processing

The Top Three hottest new majors according to Microsoft: data mining, business intelligence, web analytics

Date: 2010-08-27 14:48:12
Data Mining/Machine Learning/AI/Natural Language Processing

Text Analytics Pros Daily

Date: 2010-08-27 11:08:36
Twitter Aggregation For Text Analytics and Data Mining Professionals

Text Analytics Pros Daily

Date: 2010-08-27 11:08:36
Twitter Aggregation For Text Analytics and Data Mining Professionals

Analytics skills in demand – and analytics pros demanding top salaries

Date: 2010-08-26 21:47:43
Looking to hire top-notch data modelers, predictive analysts and other advanced data analytics professionals to beef up your organization’s analytic...

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