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Self-service BI is the new analytics
Traditionally, businesses needed an idea of what they were looking for in querying their data. With new BI tools, huge quantities of data can be explored and relationships identified even if they were completely unknown at the outset.
Big data identifies the best bull in America
The big data phenomenon is at work everywhere, including in the age-old dairy cow business.
The path to data-driven decision-making
Having trouble establishing a culture of data-driven decision making in your organization?
CIOs compete for top data analysts
Companies increasingly are turning to business intelligence to gain or maintain a competitive edge, but there is a shortage in the marketplace of IT professionals with sufficient analytics skills,
Citigroup to put IBM's Watson to work
IBM's Watson made a big splash last year as a contestant on Jeopardy!, but since then the supercomputing technology has been going to work for real. Most recently, IBM ( NYSE: IBM ) started working
Tools needed to turn big data into useful data
Turning big data into useful data requires not just effective aggregation tools but effective analytical tools as well. Barb Darrow at GigaOM offers an overview of some of the latest analytics
Data quality: Garbage in, garbage out?
We're seeing quite a bit written these days about the need to move forward on IT initiatives and decisions with great speed. When it comes to data-related projects, increasingly the advice seems to
Traits of a good data scientist
Data science has become a burgeoning field, as companies increasingly try to glean competitive value from their data and turn the decision-making process into one that's data-driven. DJ Patil, a data
CRM + predictive analytics = Insights in real time
What do you get when you combine CRM and predictive analytics? Potentially some very detailed, real-time information about customers, which can be used to improve interactions and increase sales,
When big data matters (and when it doesn't)
Does big data really amount to anything more than the data we had all along? It all depends on how it's put to use, writes Alistair Croll in a post at O'Reilly Radar. If big data is left buried in
