Occam's Razor

JANUARY 12, 2015

'The world of digital analytics seems to be insanely complicated. And, yes, some of it is. Third-party or first-party cookies anyone? And, are we tracking people, devices, web browsers or whoknowswhat? But it is a lot less complicated than you might believe. No. Really. A lot less complicated. I led a discussion the other day with a collection of people who were brand new to the space and some who were jaded long-term residents of Camp Web Analytics.

Analytics 151

Analytics Slice and Dice KPI Metrics 151

Data Science and Beyond

JANUARY 29, 2015

About a year ago, I participated in the Yandex search personalisation Kaggle competition. I started off as a solo competitor, and then added a few Kaggle newbies to the team as part of a program I was running for the Sydney Data Science Meetup. My team hasn’t done too badly, finishing 9th out of 194 teams. As is usually the case with Kaggle competitions, the most valuable part was the lessons learned from the experience.

Data Science 52

Data Science 52

Howard Dresner

JANUARY 4, 2015

When it comes to commentary with valuable real-world insights, I can always count on the participants at my weekly #BIWisdom tweetchats on Fridays. I kicked off a recent discussion with this question to the group: “What are the top five worst practices in business intelligence?” It took only a few minutes for them to toss out a lot more than five. As I commented then, there are a bunch of successful overachievers who participate in #BIWisdom tweetchats!

Business Intelligence 45

Business Intelligence Recreation/Entertainment Sales Data Quality 45

Martha Bennett

JANUARY 28, 2015

Between 2012 and 2014, mobile BI adoption shot up: Forrester survey data shows that the percentage of technology decision-makers who make some BI applications available on mobile devices has nearly quadrupled, and the percentage who state that BI is delivered exclusively via mobile devices has risen from 1% in 2012 to 7% in 2014. While […].

Technology 40

Technology Business Intelligence 40

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Nutanix

JANUARY 30, 2015

How quickly times flies! We launched the Nutanix NEXT community podcast series in December, and our weekly following continues to increase thanks to you, the community!

Big Data 20

Big Data 20

Data Science and Beyond

JANUARY 14, 2015

Parse is a great backend-as-a-service (BaaS) product. It removes much of the hassle involved in backend devops with its web hosting service, SDKs for all the major mobile platforms, and a generous free tier. Parse does have its share of flaws, including various reliability issues (which seem to be getting rarer), and limitations on what you can do (which is reasonable price to pay for working within a sandboxed environment).

Data Processing 52

Data Processing IT 52

Nutanix

JANUARY 29, 2015

With the converged marketing growing and technology professionals looking at their datacenters in a new way, 2015 promises to be a fantastic time to be selling to IT.

Marketing 20

Marketing Technology IT 20

Nutanix

JANUARY 13, 2015

Over the years I’ve spend a lot of time together with clients on how to implement their desktop strategy. It often starts with questions, such as what are the characteristics of the organization?

Strategy 20

Strategy IT 20