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New Book Review: "Enterprise Analytics"

New book review for Enterprise Analytics: Optimize Performance, Process, and Decisions through Big Data, edited by Thomas H. Davenport, FT Press, 2012, reposted here: This book is a collection of eighteen essays on enterprise analytics by fourteen different authors, ten written or co-written by the editor, who also wrote "

Counterpoint: Defining Big Data

About a month ago, I had the opportunity to attend the Big Data in Finance Day Chicago event at Microsoft Technology Center Chicago. One of my many observations was that it is apparent the industry has not agreed on a definition of "Big Data".The best definition that

Google Analytics: 3 Years, 200 posts, 20k pageviews

Just recently, a trifecta of milestones for this blog was reached: the 3-year anniversary of setting up Google Analytics, a posting of my 200th post, and 20k pageviews by visitors. And in looking at the calendar, I realized that it was about time again that I post some observations along

Big Data in Finance Day Chicago (September 18, 2012)

Personal notes from Big Data in Finance Day Chicago that I recently attended at Microsoft Technology Center Chicago. In speaking with event organizer and Fountainhead owner Andrew "Shep" Sheppard (a self-described quant by day and meetup organizer by night), following the last session, he mentioned that the first

New Book Review: "The Trusted Advisor Fieldbook"

New book review for The Trusted Advisor Fieldbook: A Comprehensive Toolkit for Leading with Trust, by Charles H. Green and Andrea P. Howe, 2011, reposted here: Almost exactly four years ago today, I wrote the following about the predecessor to this text: "Truly, the content that Maister, Green, and

New Book Review: "Scenarios"

New book review for Scenarios: The Art of Strategic Conversation (Second Edition), by Kees van der Heijden, Wiley, 2005, reposted here: This effort seemed to be among the most respected texts amongst the short list of scenario planning efforts in the current marketplace, but the opinions of other readers with

Personal Reading List: 4Q2012

My personal reading list for October, November, and December 2012. Color Key: Special Notes, Currently Queued, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. Core HTML5 Canvas: Graphics, Animation, and Game Development, by David Geary, Prentice Hall, 2012. By invitation from Amazon. Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques (Third Edition)

New Book Review: "The Evolution of Data Products"

New book review for The Evolution of Data Products: The Data that Drives Products is Shifting from Overt to Covert, by Mike Loukides, O'Reilly, 2011, reposted here: While in my opinion this short white paper sized text is not as well written as other entries within the recently

New Book Review: "Data for the Public Good"

New book review for Data for the Public Good: How Data Can Help Citizens and Government, by Alex Howard, O'Reilly, 2012, reposted here: Similar to another recently published O'Reilly Strata series text on Big Data, "Designing Great Data Products: Inside the Drivetrain Approach, a Four-step

Chicago Big Data: Future of Data Processing with Apache Hadoop (August 21, 2012)

Personal notes from the Chicago Big Data meeting this past week at 1871 at Merchandise Mart, a tech hub for startups which opened just over 3 months ago, led by Bobby Evans, a developer and tech lead at Yahoo! Arun Murthy, founder and architect at Hortonworks, was planning to present