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How mature is your advanced analytics program?

Advanced analytics is being deployed in a range of use cases across business units and industries, especially as data types and volume increase. One of the top use cases for advanced analytics we see at… 

Six skills for predictive analytics

Today, I participated in a webinar with Actuate on the skills needed for business analysts to perform predictive modeling.  This is a hot topic and there were hundreds of participants on the call.  In my part… 

Three entry points for big data initiatives

The TDWI Big Data Maturity Model and Assessment is set to launch November 20th.  Krish Krishnan and I have been working on this for a while, and we’re very excited about it.  There are two… 

Big Data’s Future/Big Data’s Past

I just listened to an interesting IBM Google hangout about big data called Visions of Big Data’s future.  You can watch  it here.  There were some great experts on the line including James Kobelius (IBM),… 

Two Big Data Resources Worth Exploring

It’s a good day.  Our new book, Big Data for Dummies, is being released today and I’m busy working on a Big Data Analytics maturity model at TDWI with Krish Krishnan.  Krish, a faculty member… 

Five Challenges for Text Analytics

While text analytics is considered a “must have” technology by the majority of companies that use it, challenges abound.  So I’ve learned from the many companies I’ve talked to as I prepare Hurwitz & Associates’… 

Are you ready for IBM Watson?

This week marks the one year anniversary of the IBM Watson computer system succeeding at Jeopardy!. Since then, IBM has gotten a lot of interest in Watson.  Companies want one of those. But what exactly…