The phrase “Business Intelligence” (BI) is biting at everyone’s ankles, and doing it with increasing intensity. Darn, it’s getting hard to ignore! There is going to be a large body of people coming into BI’s user domain in 2014, so we at TMG thought it would be useful to new entrants for us put down…
We read an interesting article on the Internet recently which succinctly describes how data analytics can easily lead to wrong conclusions. The illustration was simple and eye-opening: A man with only two hours’ sleep the previous night rear-ends a car at a red light. Based on the data thus far, we conclude that his lack…
Our regular study of Big Data unearthed this entertaining infographic that encapsulates the state of the discipline. View it, be entertained and informed! (click on it if you need to enlarge) Via: Wikibon Big Data Technorati Tags: big data,data analytics
Yes, the term may soon go the way of “fantabulous”, “far out” and other conversational fossils. Big Data, ie voluminous, non-homogenous data, will soon be the norm, and therefore soon cease to be differentiated from “data” . Here is a diagram that shows the various phases of uniqueness of several software-related firms: Diagram source: Gartner…
This morning we were stunned when we learned how much information Facebook shares with third-party websites when you sign up to those websites through Facebook (examples are religion and political views). It is almost as if FB sends them a naked picture of you Here’s what FB passes on: The motto of the story is…
