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Business Intelligence as Organizational Knowledge
From The Eponymous Pickle

Business Intelligence as Organizational Knowledge

Nine page PDF with some interesting thoughts.  No registration required.Business Intelligence 3.0: Revolutionizing Organizational Data  ... By PanoramaThis is not...

Predictive Regression Trees
From The Eponymous Pickle

Predictive Regression Trees

Regression trees were a favorite method for prediction in the enterprise.  Easy to use and also easy to explain to a decision maker.   Investigating their use in...

Polyglot Data Science
From The Eponymous Pickle

Polyglot Data Science

Instead of automating your data science, you could take a polyglot approach that combines the three common open source tools,  Mainly so you can get access to different...

Prezi does Creative Visual Storytelling
From The Eponymous Pickle

Prezi does Creative Visual Storytelling

Prezi announces a tool for storytelling called Nutshell.  I like their original tool, this should be interesting, it is   " ...  the next new tool for creativeJust...

Automating Data Science
From The Eponymous Pickle

Automating Data Science

Much in the news lately, have seen at least three other examples of automating major aspects of analytical method recently.  Can it put the data analyst out a job...

Cognitive Systems Learning Tasks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cognitive Systems Learning Tasks

Excellent talk in today's CSIG presentation.  How tasks will be learned by cognitive systems.  See the demo link below for an early example.Via Jim Spohrer:   (U...

Memex is Searching the Dark Web
From The Eponymous Pickle

Memex is Searching the Dark Web

Those who follow the history of knowledge and the Web will remember the Memex system.   Now the term points to an effort by DARPA that looks at the Dark Web.  ...

Data vs Decision Science
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data vs Decision Science

Brought up in DataScienceCentral:  What is the difference?  I support making sure we include the people that understand the decision processes involved as early...

Text Signals as Sentiment
From The Eponymous Pickle

Text Signals as Sentiment

An area that a number of groups are looking at. " ... In this burgeoning era of big data, a substantial majority of all the data is unstructured. Much of this unstructured...

Big Data Apps from Teradata
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Data Apps from Teradata

Have just had cause to go back and look to see what Teradata has done in the Big Data space.    Interesting capabilities.  Taking a deeper dive. " ... To ease companies...

Big Data in Retail
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Data in Retail

In SiliconAngle: Obvious and not very much detail.  Lots of room for innovative approaches to using data in retail.  The opening sentence is telling:" ... Although...

Business Impacts of Effective Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Business Impacts of Effective Data

Measuring the result is important, or how would you know you had any?  The means and techniques of measurement are very important. And then what is the value of...

Data Science at the Command Line
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Science at the Command Line

This is how I did analytics some time ago, with tools like SAS.  It can still be done that way.  Not sure I want to do it that way, but This book shows how.

Workforce Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Workforce Analytics

Sue Lam in the APQC Blog:" .... By now, I’m sure you’ve heard all of the buzz about analytics and the importance of it for your HR function. Though it is a newer...

Commerce Anywhere
From The Eponymous Pickle

Commerce Anywhere

Brought to my attention: Oracle's Commerce Anywhere Blog.  " .... David Dorf, Sr Director Technology Strategy for Oracle Retail, shares news and ideas about the...

Smartstones: Human and Natural Technology
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smartstones: Human and Natural Technology

A message from the Smartstones Startup, to which I have provided some help." ... Do you believe #tech should be more #human? Are you sick of all the menus, passwords...

Free Field Guide to Data Science
From The Eponymous Pickle

Free Field Guide to Data Science

This appears to be very nicely done.  By its title assumes a practical orientation with practitioner uses mentioned.    The Field Guide to Data Science, In several...

Turning on Twitter Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Turning on Twitter Analytics

This was pointed out to me, a means of turning on Twitter analytics.  Have not yet seen any associated reports.

Regression using R and a Start-up Kit
From The Eponymous Pickle

Regression using R and a Start-up Kit

Via Vincent Granville.  Good place to get started,  since even beginning data analysts know what regression is and how to use it with other packages, Like Excel...

Using GMail for Business
From The Eponymous Pickle

Using GMail for Business

A lengthy look at GMail, which I used during early tests in the enterprise.  It is a good system I have grown to be accustomed to, it does not solve the basic email...
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