Is Big Data at Risk of Unleashing Big Brother?
Privacy is always a flash point. With the advent of big data, privacy is only going to be even more of a concern. The fact is that many sources of big… [more]
“Big Data” Is Coming, “Big Data” Is Coming:
What Does It Mean To Analytic Professionals? For my first blog posting, I decided to focus on one of the hottest topics in analytics right now: “Big… [more]
U.S. Gov. Bets Big on Linguistic Analytics
Will the next 007 be schooled in analytics? Perhaps. The U.S. government is reportedly making a nine-figure investment to better understand how language… [more]
Do Your Executives Want Your Analytics?
We tend to assume that executives want the right answers about what’s driving their businesses, and that they will gravitate toward analytics as a means… [more]
Uncovering Talent Gems
Analytical Candidates You May Not Have Considered I've been thinking about the problems many of us have in recruiting analytical talent since IIA's 2011… [more]
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Why Analytics? From Connected to Inter-connected to Interdependent
There is a referee’s penalty in the sport of American football called “piling on.” It is for unnecessarily jumping on a ball carrier who has already been tackled by others. There has been so much written about analytics that I fear if I add … [Read More...]
On Using the Data You Control for Analytics, First…
Many businesses are entering new and exotic areas of analytics, with initiatives to capture social media data, job market information, and the like. These are exciting efforts, no doubt. But often the best sources can be found more easily if … [Read More...]
Will the CFO Function Become the Driver for Analytics?
How will the adoption rate of applying analytics accelerate? Who in an organization might emerge as the primary driver? Will it only be the CEO? Analytics is certainly embraced in functions such as marketing for customer and prospect analysis and as … [Read More...]
