IBM’s Watson: Becoming a Doctor with Data Analytics
The supercomputer that beat human Jeopardy champions earlier this year is now as advanced as “a second year medical student,” according to Forbes.com tech...
Text Analytics Summit 2011 – A Twitter Recap
Last week, another event lit up the Twittersphere – the Text Analytics Summit #TAS11. This event sparked some interesting conversations around adding semantics and...
CIOs and Data Analytics: A Twitter Recap of the MIT CIO Symposium
We’ve got a special #FF post for you today – a recap of the Tweetfest that was around the MIT CIO Symposium on Wednesday...
The Data Analytics of What CEOs Do All Day
Recently, four professors looked into the work life of chief executive officers at major companies. Of course, they came back with some interesting data...
The ABCs of BI Implementation
A: What is it?
“Implementation” covers the start-to-finish activities associated with any Business Intelligence project. That includes projects of every size, from replacing a single...
Prescriptive Analytics – A Step Beyond Predictive Analytics
If it seems like ages ago that you began using descriptive analytics, and you’ve already mastered the data mining, pattern recognition, forecasting and predictive...
How to CrowdSource Predictive Analytics
You can argue that data modeling and predictive analytics is as much art as it is science. There are many different approaches that can...
Six Essential Soft Skills for Data Analytics and BI Professionals
In just milliseconds, IBM’s Watson computer was able to search and evaluate thousands of potential responses to clues on the Jeopardy! game board and...
Data Analytics Popularity Increases and Goes Mainstream
It’s Friday night and you have dinner plans. The regular babysitter is busy. You’ve gathered references on a new babysitter -- five outstanding endorsements...
DMN standard to aid enterprise BRMS users…
Had a great call last week with a major US Financial Institution on the role, status and benefits of the OMG Decision Model and...