Discovering New Worlds With Analytics
As we celebrate the discovery of the New World this holiday weekend, is it a stretch to say that data analytics and Business Intelligence...
How BI and Data Analytics Professionals Used Twitter in September
Hello to all the Tweeps who are following our monthly roundup of all things business intelligence and data analytics on Twitter this month. This...
Five More Top Data Visualizations That Persuade
Last summer, we discussed the increasing popularity of data visualization to communicate complex information in business and media. The trend has exploded and since our...
Top Data Analysts Must 'Speak the Language of the Business'
Analytics professionals do best if they can succeed in three types of skills: technical, business thinking and “intangibles,” according to Kaiser Fung (@junkcharts), Vice...
Top Data Analysts Must ‘Speak the Language of the Business’
Analytics professionals do best if they can succeed in three types of skills: technical, business thinking and “intangibles,” according to Kaiser Fung (@junkcharts), Vice...
Breaking Down Data Silos to Help Drive BI Collaboration
According to a recent Aberdeen Group report, 53% of companies are seeing spikes in the number of line-of-business leaders who require analytical capabilities. But...
The Power of Cloud-based BI and Analytics
Thanks to the exponential growth in the use of unstructured data by companies, including social customer data, many decision-makers are wrestling with the most...
Ease-of-Use Key to Consumerization of BI
Conventional BI, it seems, has a New Year's resolution problem. As with eating better and working out more, everyone agrees that BI is a...
Big Data Analytics Versus Your Own Lying Eyes
If making it in Hollywood means you have arrived, then data analytics has arrived. Only a few months after social networking hit the big...
Moneyball & the Analytics of a Red Sox Playoff Panic
Today is the debut of the movie all baseball data analytics fans have been waiting for – Moneyball. We’ve pulled together some interesting data...