Analytics World Newsletter
Location Intelligence focus this week together with machine learning/analytics. And before you get carried away with self-service BI, machine-learning/AI & Cognitive Computing, a warning to focus on data prep
Barriers to extracting value from data
After the $billions invested year after year in analytics it is an indictment of line-of-business managers and IT that little real business value is extracted from data.It comes down to a fact that has been known since the dawn of computing- it... Read more
Cucumbers, machine learning and auto repair
The developer's mum has to spend 8 hours a day sorting these beauties into 9 different categories according to size, colour, shape and other attributes! Is it a use case for machine learning and automatic sorting?The system still cannot match... Read more
Security Intelligence ripe for machine learning analytics
Automating the discovery of anomalies in large, complex datasets, predicting actions and outcomes. Providing enterprises and their end users with a consumable application that doesn’t require them to perform data science.An interesting extension... Read more
GIS evolving to Location Intelligence
It used to be that analysing and visualising data points gave enough insight. No more!Just see how a site like GROW.LONDON helps companies and organisations make decisions on locating operations and offices or judging market potentialThe incumbent... Read more
1855 and already Big Data success story!
Matthew Fontaine Maurey, promising US Navy officer, was forced by injury to join the USN "Depot of Charts & Instruments". Midshipman Maurey dusted off salt-stained books to find data about wind, water, temperature and weather at specific locations... Read more
Data rich- information poor
A reminder that the growing number and disparate nature of data sources means the challenge is connecting these to establish compelling correlations.The data is, and always will be, the main determinant of how successfully you make and execute the... Read more
Analytics & the art & science of decision making
Many organisations ask for predictive analysis and forecasting tools. Co-incidentally I have just read"Super-Forecasting The art & science of prediction" by Philip Tetlock & Dan Granger .Philip is the one who ran a study over 25 years to test the... Read more
AI, Machine Learning and Human Intelligence
Geoffrey Moore explains why machine-learning is a viable way of automating decision-making rather than AI."AI develops conceptual models of the world that are underpinned by set theory and natural language. In this context, every noun or noun... Read more
IDOL, Vertica Big Data Analytics
Back in April I described a world-class combination of analytics platforms that make purpose built & embedded analytics viable for all enterprises.Now that MicroFocus intends to acquire HPE's Vertica and IDOL big data software they should get the... Read more
Mobile Analytics & BI meet crossroads
Analytics and BI today must reach all users across an organisation, from those needing simple KPI measurement visualisation to analysts testing outliers to see if they are the new reality,- a full continuum of usage across the enterprise. Many... Read more
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Mike Daly