In(tegrate) the Clouds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

As the data visualization, big data, Hadoop, Spark and self-service hype gives way to IoT, AI and Machine Learning, I dug up an old parody post on the business intelligence market circa 2007-2009 when cloud analytics was just a disruptive idea. Balanced scorecards, GIS, analytic apps, extranets. OLAP for the masses, gents?

Business Intelligence

Peter James Thomas

AUGUST 12, 2018

Equally, Rick never said “Play it again Sam” in Casablanca [2] and St. Paul never suggested that “money is the root of all evil” [3]. As Michael Caine never said in any film, “not a lot of people know that” [4]. Up-front Acknowledgements. Fact-based decision making. It sounds good doesn’t it?

Statistics

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

This is all the way from Aug 2009: Web Analytics Career Advice: Play In The Real World! The outcome of book smart is rarely better for analytics practitioners then folks trying to learn how to fly an airplane from how-to books. Hence, I have been obsessed with encouraging you to get actual data to learn from. Awesome, right? Let's go!

Analytics