Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

It is painfully heartbreaking to realize that a very small tiny number of people who have access to web analytics tools actually use them. I mean really use the tools. Ravage all the features. Exploit every possible button. Produce built-in visualization magic. Poke into the hidden crevices and discover exotic delights. Nourish yourself with the "info snacks" the tool's engineers and product managers cooked up.

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Analytics Dashboards Metrics Key Performance Indicator 146

Edwin Chen

JANUARY 2, 2012

Imagine you have a sequence of snapshots from a day in Justin Bieber’s life, and you want to label each image with the activity it represents (eating, sleeping, driving, etc.). How can you do this? One way is to ignore the sequential nature of the snapshots, and build a per-image classifier. For example, given a month’s worth of labeled snapshots, you might learn that dark images taken at 6am tend to be about sleeping, images with lots of bright colors tend to be about dancing, images of cars ar

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Snapshot Modeling Optimization Machine Learning 75

Howard Dresner

JANUARY 9, 2012

Hello All! Respondents to our Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study ® are able to report on any BI vendor they like. However, we provide a list of vendors that they can select from, as well as an "other" option. Here's our current (updated) list of vendors for the upcoming study: Actuate Alteryx Arcplan Birst Datawatch Dimensional Insight Domo (Corda) Entrinsik Good Data IBM/Cognos/SPSS Infor Information Builders (IBI) IntuitiveBI Jackbe Jaspersoft Jedox/Palo Klipfolio LogiXML Lyza

Marketing 40

Marketing Business Objectives Business Intelligence Reporting 40

Nutanix

JANUARY 28, 2012

We had a great Sales Kickoff last week. In preparation for it, Marketing created a quick video for our sales team as a fun way to start.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 9, 2012

It is the season to be predicting the future, but that is almost always a career-limiting move. So I'm not going to do that. It is a lot easier to predict the present. So I'm not going to do that either. Rather, I'm going to share a clump of realities/rules garnered from the present to help ready you for the predictable near future. Now here is the great part… if you follow these rules and act on these insights I believe you'll be significantly better prepared for the u

Marketing 142

Marketing B2B Measurement Risk 142

Howard Dresner

JANUARY 6, 2012

Hello Folks and Happy New Year! A new year promises fresh beginnings and signals the advent of the next Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study ® cycle! Having started in earnest in 2010, this will be our third comprehensive study of the BI marketplace - and our most ambitious to date! We're in the process of developing and finalizing the survey instrument now and expect to start data collection within weeks.

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