I am getting frustrated hearing vendors and sales teams over-simplify the big data discussion; buy this product or Hadoop distribution or tool or appliance and voila…you’ve got a big data solution!! Is […]
The potential of big data is only limited by the creative thinking of your business stakeholders, and that may be the most important concept in the “thinking like a data scientist” process. […]
The data lake is gaining lots of momentum across the different customers to whom I talk. Every, and I mean every organization wants to learn why and how to implement a data […]
I was reading an article in BusinessWeek titled “Kill Your Desk Chair” where the article cites the following “fact”: A recent study, from the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, LA, […]
In New Zealand, they are taking a “Moneyball” approach to optimizing social worker spending and focus attention can be most effective. A recent article in BusinessWeek “A Moneyball Approach To Helping Troubled […]
In “Thinking Like a Data Scientist Part I: Understanding Where To Start”, we examined the challenges for getting the business users to think like data scientists when contemplating where and how to […]
One question I frequently get is: “How do I become a data scientist?” Wow, tough question. There are several new books that outline the different skills, capabilities and technologies that a data […]
