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 shapes worldviews with the goal of improving its ability to glean intelligence from non-English speakers. It’s known as IARPA: Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity. In an article on The Atlantic‘s web site, [...]
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More than 4,500 corporate social responsibility reports are produced each year. That number is growing though it is still small compared to the number of companies that could produce such a report. The reporting process can be a intensive (some would even say grueling) process of data gathering and analysis – one that leading analytics [...]
This comes our way from Fast Company by way of the Environmental Defense Fund’s Innovation Exchange blog: someone is concerned about the carbon footprint of caviar. Well, the sturgeon that produce caviar to be more precise. It all swims around the largest effort ever to transport live fish. Sturgeon had to get from Germany to Abu [...]
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 to provide them. However, that isn’t always the case, and probably should never be assumed. Here’s an example. A few weeks ago, at a conference for financial executives interested in [...]
The word “analytics” seems to be on everyone’s lips — but how many of those people mean the same thing? The most common usage is associated with Google Analytics largely because it is the most widely available tool. Yet I bet if you took the average GA user and put them in front of a [...]
Could analytics dramatically remake your water bill? That’s just one of the questions that came up this past week when I spent a day at a Sustainable Cities conference hosted by the Australian Trade Commission and others. We’ve wrestled with the analytics of sustainability on this blog before. We’ve debated various rankings and the value [...]
The health care reform debate is once again roiling the U.S. House of Representatives as the new Republican majority moves on a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act passed just about a year ago. Their act is called the Repealing the Job Killing Health Care Act Bill and proponents of repeal say that doing [...]
The PUPD framework can help you understand where to take action and where to invest to optimize your analytics initiatives.
A recent court decision may have wide-reaching implications for analytics and data mining. In 2007, Vermont enacted a law that prohibited prescription drug data aggregators from selling their information to drug manufacturers for marketing purposes. According to the Courthouse News Service: Pharmacies collect information about the prescriptions they fill, including prescribing doctor’s name and address; [...]
Harvard Business School has recently published a case study on Data.gov, the government’s initiative to make more data available to average citizens and the private sector. There is a vast trove of data in the repositories of the various agencies of the Federal government but it can be tough to locate and put to use. [...]
